😋 Professor Gives Shocking Warning About Pringles!

Who else loves Pringles?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to the Jonesy and Demanda podcasts.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
I love pringles.

Speaker 1 (00:06):
Once you pop you can't stop.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
That the slogan once you pop, once you pop off,
you clear a room.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
I love pringles.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
I do too, and it's very interesting. There's actual science
behind the truth to once you pop you can't stop.
I'm a big fan of a woman called Professor Hannah Fry,
and she's the co host of a podcast called The
Rest is Science. And she gave well, she didn't just
give me, she gave everyone this information about pringles and
the reason why you can never get full from pringles.
You know how when you can eat a whole carton

(00:34):
of them and it's like they haven't touched the side.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
It seems to me that yeah, because you eat them
and you eat one of those tubes. You can eat
a little tube or a big.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
Check and you still don't think I'm satisfied, I've had enough.
You just they're so easy to digest. There. Well, here's why.
So the way we eat food is that once food
gets to a certain point in our intestinal system, even enough,
I've got too many big science words for you in
our intestines, at least as a hormone that tells us
that we're full. So that's the whole point of whole

(01:04):
foods and nonprocessed food, the full hormone, because when you're
full from whole foods or food like that, you get
the clear signals I've had enough. And that's why all
nutritionness will say eat that kind of food, because your
body will give you the signals and you'll stop eating, presumably.
But when you eat things like pringles, because they are

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so processed, they're basically predigested and you never get that signal.
They're macerated in a lab and then reconstructed so that
once you pop, you quite literally can't stop. As we said,
when you eat them, they dissolve before they reach the
part of your body where the body sends out the
signal saying thank you, I'm full, So you can never

(01:47):
get full of them. And scientists know this, and so
for many years they've had people coming in for taste
tests and things, and it's not do you like the
taste of it? I'm sure they're asking that as well,
but they'll also say when did you feel you'd had enough?
How much did you eat? And so that's part of
this system that these companies employ it's like hacking our bodies,

(02:08):
as she says, to optimize the food for volume, so
we'll just eat more and more because we never get full.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
Being an old school Catholic, it's a bit like the
consistency of the church wafer.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
If you ever eaten one of them, you're only allowed
one at a time. Body of Christ, Willy Nilly.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
I went back to church every day just for the wafer.
Body please,