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In today’s episode we’re uncovering the medicines that are hiding in your kitchen.

Molecular biologist Kanchan Koya joins Jonathan and Sarah to explore the incredible health benefits of spices. From controlling blood sugar to soothing a sore throat, we’ll discover what the latest research says about household favourites including ginger, cinnamon and cloves.

Kanchan Koya is a food scientist, founder of the spicecentric food blog Chief Spice Mama and author of the cookbook ‘100 Recipes with Healing Spices for your Family Table’. She will show us how to get the most out of spices, with simple cooking tips and delicious recipes.

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Timecodes:
00:00 Introduction
01:26 Quick fire questions
03:39 What are spices?
04:10 Polyphenols in spices
07:47 Spices and health
11:35 Cinnamon and blood sugar control
15:40 Antiinflammatory benefits of spices
21:56 A practical guide to using spices
25:46 Introduction to Kanchan’s dabba
33:48 Reviving old spices
35:40 The wonders of ginger: from morning sickness to gut health
38:30 Spiced cooking tips
40:17 Breakfast ideas: add spices to start your day
42:09 Creative ways to incorporate spices into snacks
44:44 Dinner delights: spicing up main meals
46:30 Spices for kids
48:47 Spiced drinks: from chai to golden milk
50:28 The ultimate spice dish

Studies related to today’s episode:

Safety and efficacy of curcumin versus diclofenac in knee osteoarthritis: a randomized openlabel parallelarm study, from Trials. Link: https://trialsjournal.biomedcentral.c...

Analgesic effect of the aqueous and ethanolic extracts of clove, from Avicenna Journal of Phytomedicine. Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

Effect of cinnamon spice on continuously monitored glycemic response in adults with prediabetes, from The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

Star anise (Illicium verum): Chemical compounds, antiviral properties, and clinical relevance, from Phytotherapy Research. Link: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31997...

GingerMechanism of action in chemotherapyinduced nausea and vomiting, from Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition. Link: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25848...

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