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Folate-rich foods including green lentils, spinach, orange segments and avocado beside a supplement bottle on a wooden table

Yes, folic acid is synthetic, but that doesn’t mean it’s harming your child’s behaviour

Some influencers claim folic acid damages children's health — but the scientific consensus strongly supports its role in preventing birth defects.

Vitamin A rich foods including carrots, roasted sweet potato, fresh spinach and brown eggs on a rustic wooden table

There is no evidence that a low vitamin A diet might be beneficial for your health

Some influencers promote cutting dietary vitamin A as a health intervention — but evidence for restricting it in healthy people is extremely thin and…

A wooden bowl of fresh whole fruit including apples, oranges, grapes, bananas, strawberries and blueberries

Don’t listen to this influencer's advice, fruit is not making you fat

Whole fruit is unlikely to cause weight gain — the fructose in fruit behaves very differently from added sugar. Here's what the long-term evidence shows.

Four glasses of different milks, dairy, oat, almond and soy, in a row on a kitchen counter

The great milk debate: does the science support recent claims?

Which milk is really the best for your health? A recent article published in the Telegraph compared various sorts of milk to each other and came out in str

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