Big Technology Podcast · Friday, August 14, 2026
Yuval Hari discusses research by Professor David Raubenheimer, suggesting that processed foods often have low protein content. Since the body has a specific hunger for protein for essential functions, people may overeat these low-protein processed foods to meet their protein needs.
“So, for example, processed food has a very low amount of protein in it. Much, low on average, as a class, processed foods have quite low levels of protein.”
“So if you have a diet that's dominated by processed foods, which are low in protein, you have to eat a lot more of those processed foods to get the amount of protein your body needs.”