Sam Sanders

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960 appearances 14 recordings 6 series first heard Mar 2025 last heard 3 Jun

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Apple News Today · Americans are obsessed with protein. How much do you actually need? · 28 Mar 2026 podcast

Try telling that to Americans.

Yeah, yeah.

So then let's move...

into this current protein boom.

You've already mentioned that it feels culturally different in some ways.

Those previous booms were about the lower class and working class.

This new protein boom seems to be the biggest obsession of people who are middle or upper class, no?

And then we end up with protein Doritos.

We end up with protein Doritos.

Tell me.

How does it feel for you two as researchers to see protein end up in that capacity, in that cultural context, everywhere in these increasingly absurd ways?

They're Doritos!

That's what's so crazy about it.

Yeah.

There is a portion of your book that really speaks to the culture behind our current protein moment.

You use this word called nutritionism, and I want to spend some time talking about it because the word kind of blew my mind.

You both define it as, quote, the ideological process through which the value of food is reduced to its biochemical components and measured according to its Eurocentric, scientized standards rather than taste and experience.

Is that really what this current protein moment is about?

We've stopped looking at food as food, and we are increasingly trying to break down every bit and part and piece of it to optimize it?

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