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The Toxic Ingredients Hiding in Your “Healthy” Food with Vani Hari (Food Babe)

Oct 12, 2026 · 1h 11m

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Food activist and Food Babe founder Vani Hari returns to Live Like a Girl to break down what's actually hiding in many of the foods we buy every day. We get into ultra-processed foods, ingredient labels, added flavors, artificial sweeteners, food dyes, MSG, cooking oils, food noise, and the simple grocery-store habits Vani uses with her own family. Vani also shares how to make the transition toward more real food without making food boring or giving up birthdays, holidays, French fries, pizza, and the traditions you love. _ IN THIS EPISODE: How to identify ultra-processed foods What Vani looks for on ingredient labels Ingredients she personally avoids Food noise and highly palatable foods…