
ZOE Science & Nutrition
How learning to savour flavour can transform your health | Spencer Hyman
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6 Nov 2025 · 51 min
Nutrition basicsGut health
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Is flavour just a sensory experience? Or the secret key to eating for health? In this episode, Spencer Hyman, flavour expert and co-founder of Cocoa Runners, joins Professor Tim Spector, world-leading scientist in nutrition and gut health, to uncover how the food industry manipulates taste to make us overeat, and how rediscovering real flavour could transform our wellbeing. Spencer reveals the fascinating science of flavour and why we “taste” with our noses, how chocolate became the world’s firs