I love your show. Yet, today, listening to the episode on fiber, I thought, what a sad missed opportunity to help the general public understand fiber intake vs disease. I have Crohn’s Disease. I’m also a varied plant based eater. My doctors marvel at my diet, yet I still have a disease that manifests in my entire GI, muscular skeletal, skin, and pancreas. This kind of program hurts those of us who mostly suffer in silence so as to avoid another uneducated person insisting if I ate this, I’d be cured. I have a complex immune mediated disease where a high fiber diet may help with some symptoms, but if I have structures, ulcers, fistulas, it’ll potentially kill or severely damage me. This episode on fiber felt like an infomercial. Please try better to protect us, if you can. Otherwise, carry on sweet podcasters.

Love this show. A great blend of science and history. Would love to learn more about microbiome and mental health. Been reading about some linkages …only thing I don’t like are the loud ads!

It’s called lettuce soup! And it’s delicious.

I used to love listening to this podcast until they started inserting their politics. Maybe you could do an episode on what foods to eat to cure TDS!

I’ve listened to every episode in the backlog, and finally get to listen to them as they come out!!! This podcast has kept me company on long car trips and commutes for years. I know I eat healthier because of it, and I know so much more about the world, now! Thank you so much for making fantastic episode after fantastic episode!

I really enjoy Gastropod’s thoughtful blend of history, science, and social issues (such as including class, race, and colonialism in their discussions); I always learn a lot. I also appreciate how professional and polished each episode is. Many podcast hosts are unfortunately rather careless in their work. I wish others would take a cue from Gastropod.

Gastropod is an always interesting, engagingly presented podcast about the science and history of food and its role in human culture. Highly recommended.

I gave this show 5 stars because it delivers great content on the cultural background and science of food., which is of great interest to me as an avid cook, I’ve learned so much. I could do without the political commentary and interjections.

I adore this show. I have learned so many things that I would have sworn were boring—but this show makes it fascinating! Well researched and delivered with exceptional skill.

The content is great. The host that is from England is annoying to listen to, constantly pointing out that she is from England. If she quit doing that this would be a great show. It makes it hard to continue listening to more episodes once I noticed how annoying it is. The other host focuses on the content and is more professional.

So many interesting stories about food, history and culture as well as science

I came across this show and decided to give a listen. While I enjoyed the content, one of the hosts’ ever-changing accent /pronunciations drove me so insane I can’t listen further. I really enjoyed the content, please just speak normally.

Listen to every day while driving

Interesting facts about the food we eat in digestable doses while remaining interesting and enjoyable. I find myself saying multiple times during multiple shows wow how interesting or go figure poisoned again the us food industry.

I’ve always loved this podcast, but sadly just like every other one now, politics has to enter. I just want to learn about food, I don’t need your politics.

It continues to amaze me how Cynthia and Nicky come up with such well-reported, engaging episodes on such a fascinating range of topics. Highly recommend!

Y’all really made an episode about watermelon in the context of historical racism and as a symbol of resistance and didn’t mention Palestine. You spoke of “summers in Israel” and interviewed an Israeli horticulturist and did not mention Palestine. SHAME ON YOU.

As someone who has grown up in a place with a strong accent, and then traveled extensively and lived in a place with an equally strong, but different, accent I find Nicola’s accent charming and evocative of my time dating a woman from the UK who grew up with an Australian mother. Some people just need to get out more.

Nicola Twilley, please stop pretending you don’t know how to pronounce words. It is excruciating to listen to and keeps myself and many others from being able to enjoy this otherwise interesting and chill podcast.

Can’t stand to suffer ads that make up 40-50% of the show. Can someone please invent a podcast adblocker? I’d maybe pay a couple dollars for an ad-free version if it was an option, but then each episode would be too short to go into these incredibly nuanced topics. Wish I could just garden or go for a walk without using my busy/dirty hands taking my phone out every 9 minutes to smash the skip button. Maybe podcasts just aren’t for me.

kudos to nicola twilley for continuing to amaze us with her vast array of new, undiscovered word pronunciations. truly a linguistic anthropologist’s dream.

If you open up a show about food science with how much you dislike RFK, Joe Rogan and others, you have already lost me. Unfortunate, because the food/nutrition topic is so important to the public without your political nonsense. Shame.

This podcast is always entertaining and informative. It’s one of the ones I share the most, as well as the source of lots of good stories.

I’m just obsessed with these stories. The Frieda’s Specialty Produce episode changed my world and the paw paw episode sent me all over New York City on a search for it (and we found it!!)

Used to listen faithfully, but now done with this podcast since they felt compelled to interject their politics. Like actors and athletes, just stick to your craft - which is NOT politics. I don’t need, want, or care about your political opinions.

Greatest podcast ever!!!!! I love it sooo much and it is so interesting! Anyone who criticizes the podcast doesn’t know what they’re talking about!! The podcast is a one of a kind podcast and is really good. Thank you Nicola Twilley and Cynthia Graber

I listened to your podcast for info and entertainment. I really do not want to hear your opinion on politics, or opinions on guns. I did like your content until you started commenting on things not food related.

The hosts good deep in to the topics and have entertaining and knowledgeable experts as guests. I’m going back to the first episode and working my way through them all!

I initially enjoyed this podcast, but over time it’s become clear that it’s not grounded in objective research. Some episodes feel more like infomercials than investigations—like the canola oil episode, which featured a canola oil producer for an inappropriately long segment (inappropriate because the show claims to be about the science/history of food). The show is worryingly loose with facts, prioritizing feel-good storytelling and entertainment over accuracy. It’s not just disappointing—it’s risky to listen passively, because so much of the information isn’t reliable.

Podcast content is typically good. Used to listen to most episodes. Then you opened the seed oil episode and let your politics show through after playing clips of RFK and Joe Rogan.

They cover lots of interesting topics and do great in depth research. They have encouraged me to try new foods and made me think about where the foods I love come from. I always learn something new for a great dinnertime conversation

You apologize for playing a Rogan clip? I’m done.

my favorite podcast to listen to while trying to sleep

Love the co-hosts and the writing. The mango episode should have won an award.

Your show is anything but vanilla but yet if it even if it was would it be a bad thing? With that opening I hope you take into consideration doing a vanilla episode! Thank you!

Gastropod is the perfect way to end my day when I can’t stop thinking and stressing and need an escape that captures my attention, entertains me, teaches me something while reflecting on history, and I always walk away with cool fun facts to share with others. It’s literally the perfect podcast for me. I listen on the daily, evening dog walk and/or in the sauna after my workouts. Time flies in the sauna when I would otherwise count the seconds if I were just listening to music or reading. A lot of times I’m still listening with EarPods when I get home and my husband is like ummm helloooo. I’m captivated. I think you get the gist. I can’t express the extent of my gratitude. You guys are highly knowledgeable/ facts-based and cool. Rare combo. Thank you for being you and hosting such a fricken cool pod.

This podcast has gone downhill as it has become more popular. Not impressed - I have unsubscribed.

I love to listen to this podcast with my parents and we all love it and I got to see them in Boston and they were so nice! And plus it’s really interesting and I learned a lot that o don’t know!

This is the first podcast I listened too by Gastropod. Maybe I’m biased being connected with the earth and all it’s natural beauty so this episode specifically filled me with curiosity, joy, and hope. I loved the way the host(s) broke down the story over the long term from its conception when the indigenous of the land were restricted from living there any longer. They followed up even after a solution was started to really show that the problems we’ve created are going to take particular and delicate handling for generations to undo damage and try and weave the essentials together needed for ecology to takeoff and thrive beyond what our human touch can be. Wonderful Podcast!

Not sure I can make it any longer

I learn something new every episode! It’s the only podcast I make time to listen to

Love the show, but I have to say I’m glad I don’t contribute money because the amount of encore shows you guys post is a little bit out of hand. You do one show per week and every 2 to 3 weeks is an encore show, why?

Good

Great podcast, very informative, just wish one of the hosts wouldn’t annunciate so much, it’s a bit difficult to listen to

We listen to this podcast while driving and are always amazed at what we learn. They dig deep and make every topic interesting and relevant. The research is in depth and not fluff. The interview experts are well chosen. I have recommended this to friends and they are equally impressed. Can’t wait to read Nicola’s book after listening to her podcast.

Love the topics, but part of a good podcast is that it’s pleasant to hear. Are they intellectualizing themselves out of normal, everyday talking? One example—words like city and sitting are spelled with “t”s, but we pronounce them like “d”s. The hosts do sharp “t”s and it sounds strange enough to be distracting. The tone and cadence feels off too.

If you wanted a good podcast, keep looking. Left wing complaints about political leaders from the 80’s? In a podcast about ketchup? Give me a break.

I’m sorry but the speaking style sounds affected and it distracts from the great topics and conversation.

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My wife and I could only get thru 3 podcasts (bagels, hush puppies and one other) before we had to drop it. The content was a bit weak. Lots of this is what we think without a lot of support. Normally, I’d try a few more cause I like the other topics and it wasn’t bad. But we couldn’t take the tone. Pretentious, smug and this constant giggle of one of the hosts. I think the two hosts are journalists, not comedians so stop trying so hard. Some, like the two on Hard Fork, pull it off but we just had to stop.