Dieticians are in bed with Foodiness, Incorporated! Erica Wides is once again joined in the studio by nutrition expert Kristin Wartman to talk about her recent article in Civil Eats about big food's influence on The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Hear how companies like Coca-Cola and General Mills fund nutrition studies on sugar and processed food. Doesn't that just seem like a conflict of interest? Kristin spoke with a dietician employed by Sodexo off the record; hear how a food professional deals with the contradictions of health and foodiness? Later, Erica challenges Kristin to a game of foodiness truth-or-dare! This program has been sponsored by Whole Foods.

"People whose jobs it is to look out for people's health are...for sale?" [7:00] -- Erica Wides on Let's Get Real

"There's nothing whole about whole grain cereal. It's highly processed!" [11:20] -- Kristin Wartman on Let's Get Real

On a nostalgic breakfast themed edition of Let's Get Real, Chef Erica Wides dismisses the notion that there could ever be such a thing as "whole grain Cap'n Crunch". Tune in to learn why most conventional supermarket breakfast items are full of "foodiness" and hear how companies "enrich" their products with supplements such as Omega 3's to trick consumers into thinking they are eating healthy food. Whether your memories of cereal as a child are good or bad, this episode is for you. This program was sponsored by Heritage Foods USA's No Goat Left Behind Initiative.

This weeks Cutting the Curd brings you Mathew Lange of Lange Dairy Development out of North Carolina and who is also the Development Coordinator of the North Carolina Dairy Advantage. Tune into hear about what small farmstead dairies, not just in North Carolina, are up against in comparison to commercial dairy processors. From market volatility to milk pricing learn how small dairies are using programs like the Dairy Advantage to compete with the commodity market. This episode is sponsored by Whole Foods Market.