Noel King

We need to get in a good high protein meal before doing so.

Let's make a protein coffee while I talk about the importance of protein while on a GLP-1 medication.

Coming up, Chris goes behind the veil at General Mills.

Today Explained is back with me, Noelle from work, and Chris Gayomali.

Now, as you've skittered around the aisles of your local grocery store, you have likely wondered at some point, how are they getting the protein into all this stuff?

Chris had the same thought, and then he scored an invitation.

Speaking of Jurassic Park, I was trying to picture how do you get protein into food?

Because it's it's not just Wheaties.

It's also Cheerios.

It's also like you said, it's granola bars.

It's everything.

And all I can imagine is a person with like a big needle.

Somehow the needle has liquid protein.

They're just like plunging the needle into a weedy flake.

I'm guessing no.

But how does it work?

Like, how do they get the protein in there?

You know, you're pointing at something here.

Listeners will know I am obsessed with ultra processed foods and what they may be doing to us.

I drank a protein shake the other day and I was like, oh, my God, none of this is stuff that I could find in my own kitchen.