Nutrition

We dive into the powerful, persuasive effect of stories to fact-check a claim that potatoes “aren’t our food,” based on a retelling of the potato’s history.

We are told eating raw meat carries real risks, but then we also see influencers eating raw meat, and they seem to feel fine. But what does the evidence say?

Social media often compares Italian and American products. We fact-check the claim that you’d need to eat six apples in America to get the benefits from one.

Claims that fruits should be avoided due to their sugar content are very popular on social media, so we fact-check the claim that eating fruits makes you fat.