What Is Food? Does It Absolutely Need to Be Cheated?

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Between now and the end of the year, people all over the world will be enjoying all sorts of holiday feasts, eating lots of cookies, and maybe even enjoying a sugar plum or two. In other words: it's food season, baby! And we've got a piping hot bowl of science stew for you! Don't forget to save room for desert: a big slice of butt pie!

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[Trivia Question]

Apple sweetness

https://www.nature.com/articles/srep44950

[Fact Off]

Yeast & vitamins advertising

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9105273/

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/12/28/675280193/how-a-little-science-and-a-lot-of-shady-advertising-boosted-yeasts-popularity

https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/magazine/the-healing-power-of-compressed-yeast