• The Food Babe
  • Food activist
  • New York Times best-selling author
  • Named one of the “Most Influential People on the Internet” by TIME magazine
• Food Babe Family: More Than 100 Recipes and Foolproof Strategies to Help Your Kids Fall in Love with Real Food

-How should you choose your breakfast oats?…07:24

• Vani has two kids
• Breakfast she serves to her kids
• One Degree Oats
• Right before harvest, oat is sprayed down with Roundup to kill all the weeds
  • The same goes for wheat
• Choose glyphosate-free oats; look for certified glyphosate-free label
• Glyphosate can disrupt nutrient absorption
• Steel-cut oats are digested slower and make you feel full longer
• Dr. Cowan's Garden vegetable powders (use code BEN to save 15% off the vegetable powders)

-How did Vani feed her children when they were babies?…11:56

• The benefits of breastfeeding
• Vani's companies:
  • Food Babe
  • Truvani
• Transitioned to food at around 6–7 months
  • Started with vegetables
• Waited with sweet foods
  • It’s important to limit sweet stuff in the beginning
• Picky eating is caused by processed foods
• Serenity Kids (use code BEN to save 15% off for the first order)
  • Ben and Vani both invested in the company
• Ben's article on baby foods:
  • “Why Ben Greenfield Now Eats Baby Food With His Steak, Why Our Babies Are Sick & How Nutrient-Dense Baby Food Can Be Answer For Making Stronger Kids.”
• Vani uses pouches only when traveling
• Jarred baby food that always tastes the same
  • The brain becomes less accepting of a wide range of flavors

-What is the importance of providing a variety of food?…17:20

• The first baby food has to be as close to nature as possible
• Vani’s daughter ate bok choy as a 1-year-old
• Now, she eats every vegetable
• Her son was a bit more challenging
• Feeding kids with wild sardines
  • The benefits of sardines

-What are the dangers of MSG?…20:27

• Autolyzed yeast extract and yeast derivatives
• Derivatives that are similar to MSG — monosodium glutamate
• Studies on obesity
  • Rats are given MSG compounds like autolyzed yeast extract
• It hijacks your taste buds
• It makes you want to eat more than you should
• Manufacturers add it to their food to hook a customer for life
• MSG controversy
• Is glutamate in MSG the same as the one your body produces?
• You can OD on artificial MSG
• It triggers toxins in your brain so you remember the flavor
• MSG is responsible for obesity epidemics, picky eaters, and lack of nutrients in the body
• Is MSG neurotoxic?
• The introduction of processed foods has produced an overweight and obese population
• Opt out of the processed food industry experiment

-Are there any good snacks for kids?…33:50

• Gerber’s Lil' Crunchies are not good
  • They're like Cheetos for kids, but worse
• Some companies are trying to make products with real food ingredients
  • Simple Mills Pop Mmms
  • Sweet Nothings
• Vani's book Food Babe Family has substitutes for popular snacks 
• Artificial flavors that are carcinogens
• Artificial colors cause ADD, asthma, eczema, inflammation of the brain, and the lessening of your immune system.
• Other problematic artificial ingredients in processed foods:
  • Titanium dioxide
  • Caramel coloring
  • Vanillin
  • PGPR
  • TBHQ (Tertiary butylhydroquinone)
  • BHT

-Are Veggie Straws healthier than Ruffles Potato Chips?…42:08

• They are both made with conventional canola oil or sunflower oil extracted with hexane — a very carcinogenic compound
• Both are high in omega-6 fatty acids and linoleic acid
• Non-organic potatoes are full of pesticides
• Veggie Straw company doesn’t produce real veggie straws
• Rhythm snacks provides real dehydrated veggies

-What should you do about food at birthday parties?…44:50

• Vani’s kids are allowed one treat without artificial colors
• She explains to them that they value health differently than other people
• Her daughter now makes her own decisions
• Ice Cream Sandwich ingredients include caramel coloring
• Corporations are beginning to wake up to the idea that we want cleaner products
• Educating children and teaching them to make good decisions
• Feeding kids before a party
• Making your own cookies with high-quality ingredients
• Ben’s experience with his sons
  • Bringing their own snacks
• The appendix gets inflamed because of eating inflammatory foods
• Podcast with Bryan Johnson:
  • “A Step-By-Step Blueprint For Longevity: The Most Advanced Age Reversal Strategies Known To Humankind, With Bryan Johnson.”

-What does Vani’s meal planning consist of?…58:55

• Ben is a creature of habit; doesn’t mind eating the same food every day
• Limiting food choices and meal planning helps a lot
• Vani is always prepared and has a lot of recipes in her book, Food Babe Family
• Where can people find Vani?
  • Instagram
  • Food Babe