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Speaker 1: Jersey and Amanda jam Nation. Speaking of food, I've just

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Speaker 1: come across this very interesting story on TikTok about kale.

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Speaker 1: The hashtag canceled, kale has started woke. What's kale done?

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Speaker 1: What's kale and Jackie O done? Here's what kale has done.

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Speaker 1: We've been duped into thinking that kaylee is a superfood.

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Speaker 1: It's not. Kale became all the rage because in twenty thirteen,

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Speaker 1: a PR firm started a PR campaign. They created a

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Speaker 1: fake company called the American Kale Association to popularize kale.

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Speaker 1: Because before that, Pizza Hut were the biggest buyers of

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Speaker 1: kale not to eat. They used it to decorate their

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Speaker 1: salad bars. It was garnished because it's so stiff and green.

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Speaker 1: It was just a garnish. So the PR company paid

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Speaker 1: celebrities like Beyonce to jump on this endorsement. They added

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Speaker 1: it to menus in high end restaurants, a kale merchandise

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Speaker 1: to sell to the public. It was a very successful campaign,

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Speaker 1: which led to the idea that kale was some kind

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Speaker 1: of superfood, and they've exploited that title. In reality, kale

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Speaker 1: really isn't. Kale has a potential to lead to health

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Speaker 1: issues because it has a lot of defense chemicals. Isothiocyanates

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Speaker 1: can inhibit the absorption of iodine. Oxalates can cause kidney stones.

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Speaker 1: Kale can also contain a sugar called raphanose which can't

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Speaker 1: be broken down, which leads to digestive issues. It's of

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Speaker 1: the letters family. I don't know, but it's a hyper

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Speaker 1: accumulator of heavy metals and pesticides, and particular samples of

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Speaker 1: kale were shown to have high levels of forever chemicals

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Speaker 1: known as pfas. So it's very interesting that this has

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Speaker 1: been sold to us as a superfood simply as a

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Speaker 1: PR campaign. Remember with spinach, spinach actually is good for you,

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Speaker 1: but they wanted to help the spinach farmers post and

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Speaker 1: that's why Popeye came into the finish and no one said, well,

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Speaker 1: how come your forearms are big and your actual arms

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Speaker 1: some sort of genetic disorder Popeye. So, yes, kale had

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Speaker 1: a PR campaign and we've been duped into thinking it's

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Speaker 1: excellent for us as a super food. If you go

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Speaker 1: back in history, we didn't eat potatoes. So Walter Raleigh

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Speaker 1: discovered the potato potatoes aren't bad for you, but we

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Speaker 1: didn't eat them. They didn't know what to do with them. No,

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Speaker 1: well that's in history. I'd build houses of them, but

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Speaker 1: they would need to build houses out of potatoes. They did.

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Speaker 1: Come on, according to Blackadder, you've gone to the true

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Speaker 1: historical teachings,