In this new episode of La Loupe, we sift through your pantry with Thomas Mahler, deputy editorial director of L’Express, and Antoine Beau, journalist in the Sciences department.
The team: Charlotte Baris (presentation), Mathias Penguilly (writing) and Jules Krot (editing and production).
Music and design: Emmanuel Herschon / Studio Torrent
Image credits: Charly Triballeau / AFP
Logo: Anne-Laure Chapelain / Benjamin Chazal
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Charlotte Baris: Dear listeners, this episode will begin in a kitchen… So, rest assured, if you are in another room (or even outside your home), I will put your imagination to work. You find yourself in front of a pantry, filled with all kinds of food, except that the ingredients are arranged very carefully according to their Nutriscore, this indicator which provides information on the nutritional quality of our food.
Well, know that this arrangement would have been very different if it had been carried out by journalists from the Science department of L’Express. Because in recent years, studies have multiplied on what we call “ultraprocessed foods” and the observation is implacable: dear listeners, in addition to sugar and saturated fat… another danger threatens your pantry and it is not where you imagine it. In the front page of L’Express this week, we look at La Loupe all these foods that you are not wary of and which nevertheless turn out to be bad for your health…
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