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101

The Fruit that Could Save the World

102

Meet Taro, the Poke Bowl's Missing Secret Ingredient

103

Always Coca-Cola: Coca, Kola, and the *Real* Secret Formula

104

Here Comes Truffle

105

Museums and the Mafia: The Secret History of Citrus (encore)

106

The End of the Calorie (encore)

107

Champagne Wishes: The Tastes of Celebration

108

Caviar Dreams: The Tastes of Celebration

109

What Is Native American Cuisine? (Encore)

110

That Old Chestnut: A Nutty Tale, of Love, Loss, and Reconnection

111

Prescription Dinner: Can Meals Be Medicine?

112

Trouble in Paradise: Coconut War Waters and Coconut Oil Controversies

113

Does the Western Megadrought Mean the End of Cheap Cheese and Ice Cream?

114

Lunch Gets Schooled (encore)

115

What Do Aliens Eat? Food in Sci-Fi and Fantasy

116

Guest Episode: The Umami Mama by Unexplainable

117

Gut Feeling

118

Green Gold: Our Love Affair With Olive Oil (encore)

119

How Ketchup Got Thick

120

Delivery Wars

121

The Milk of Life

122

Poultry Power: The Fried Chicken Chronicles (encore)

123

Guest episode: Montréal by Not Lost

124

Reinventing the Eel

125

Monsanto or MonSatan? How—and Why—a St. Louis Startup Became a Hated Herbicide Giant

126

The Way the Cookie Crumbles

127

Black Gold: The Future of Food...We Throw Away

128

Gum's the Word: A Sticky Story

129

Déjà-Brew: How Coffee Got Bad, Then Worse, and, Finally, Good Again

130

Grounds for Revolution: the Stimulating Story of How Coffee Shaped the World

131

The Fortune Cookie Quest

132

Guest Episode: Graveyard Cookies and Dollhouse Crimes

133

Mango Mania: How the American Mango Lost its Flavor—and How it Might Just Get it Back (encore)

134

Guest Episode: Scents and Sensibility

135

Your Mystery Date

136

The Most Interesting Oil in the World

137

Are Plant- and Fungus-Based Meats Really Better than the Real Thing?

138

Guest Episode: The Doorbell by Nice Try!

139

Balls *and* Brains: The Science and History of Offal

140

Trick or Treat: Soul Cakes, Candy Corn, and Sugar Skulls Galore!

141

Buried Treasure: Weeds, Seeds, and Zombies

142

The Barrel That Could Save A Forest

143

Tofu for You: Meet the Cult Leader, the Spy, and the Pioneering Woman Chinese Doctor Who Brought Tofu to the West

144

The Great Gastropod Pudding Off (encore)

145

It's All Going to Pot: the Science and Economics of Edibles

146

Baked: How Pot Brownies and Pate de Fruits Fueled an Edible Cannabis Revolution

147

The Bottle vs. Tap Battle Finale: Alkaline H2O, Lead Pipes, and, Yes, Water Sommeliers

148

Bottled Vs. Tap: The Battle to Quench Our Thirst

149

Chocpocalypse Now! Quarantine and the Future of Food

150

Guest Episode: Immune Boosting, Is It a Bust? | Science Vs

151

Guest Episode: How Much Water Do You Actually Need a Day?

152

First Class Fare

153

Guest Episode: How To Save a Planet

154

You're Wrong About Prohibition

155

So Hot Right Now: Why We Love the Chile Pepper

156

Easy A: The SuperRad Story of Home Economics

157

Where There's Smoke, There's ... Whiskey, Fish, and Barbecue!

158

Phage Against the Machine

159

Guest Episode: Mission: ImPASTAble from The Sporkful

160

Why Thai?

161

Hot Tips

162

TV Dinners

163

The Brightest Bulb

164

Like Water in the Desert

165

The Magic Cube

166

The Big Apple Episode

167

The Hangover: Part Gastropod

168

Snack Attack!

169

This Spud's For You

170

Moo-Dunnit: How Beef Replaced Bison on the American Plains—and Plate

171

What the Shell? Cracking the Lobster's Mysteries

172

Guest Episode: Rocky Road with Science Diction

173

Shatter-Proof: How Glass Took Over the Kitchen—and Ended Child Labor

174

The Most Dangerous Fruit in America

175

Dig for Victory

176

Shared Plates: How Eating Together Makes Us Human

177

Pizza Pizza!

178

Eating the Wild: Bushmeat, Game, and the Fuzzy Line Between Them

179

Eating the Rainbow: Or, the Mystery of the Orange Oranges, the Red M&Ms, and the Blue Raspberry

180

A Tale To Warm The Cockles Of Your Heart

181

White vs. Wheat: The Food Fight of the Centuries

182

Licorice: A Dark and Salty Stranger

183

To Fight Climate Change, Bank on Soil

184

Move Over Gin, We’ve Got Tonic Fever

185

The United States of McDonald’s

186

Dinner Plate Invasion: Lionfish, Tiger Shrimp, and Feral Pigs, Oh My!

187

Meet the Queen of Kiwi: the 96-Year-Old Woman Who Transformed America’s Produce Aisle

188

Are Insect Guts the Secret to the Most Delicious Kimchi?

189

Menu Mind Control

190

Of Ghost Foods and Culinary Extinction

191

Tiki Time!

192

What’s CRISPR Doing in our Food?

193

Happy Birthday to Us: Gastropod Turns Five

194

Celebrate Mexico’s True National Holiday with the Mysteries of Mole

195

Running on Fumes: Strawberry’s Dirty Secret

196

Omega 1-2-3

197

Meet Sharbat, the Ancestor of Sorbet, Syrup, Shrub, Sherbet, and Pretty Much Everything Else Cool

198

Super Fry: The Fight for the Golden Frite

199

Eat This, Not That: The Surprising Science of Personalized Nutrition

200

Guts and Glory