{"id":926495,"date":"2026-10-13T10:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T10:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/926495\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T10:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T10:02:09","slug":"craig-reucassel-tackles-the-great-food-con","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/926495\/","title":{"rendered":"Craig Reucassel tackles The Great Food Con"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australians are being sold a diet of ultra-processed foods, but what is it really doing to our health?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the new three-part documentary series The Great Food Con, Craig Reucassel investigates the industry behind some of the nation&#8217;s most popular foods. It premieres Tuesday 24 November at 8pm on ABC TV, with all episodes available to stream on ABC iview.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Through bold experiments, undercover investigations and expert analysis, The Great Food Con exposes the marketing, misinformation and industry influence shaping what Australians eat every day. Along the way, Craig follows Australian families as they navigate the confusing world of additives, ingredient labels and food advertising, asking a simple question: do we really know what&#8217;s in our food?<\/p>\n<p>The series also takes a hard look at food regulation in Australia, questioning whether consumers are getting the information they need to make informed choices and who benefits when they don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Provocative, entertaining and timely, The Great Food Con challenges Australians to rethink the food on their plate and the system putting it there.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve got a story for you. Stream captivating documentaries anytime on\u00a0<a class=\"Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/iview.abc.net.au\/category\/docs\" data-component=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">ABC iview.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>PRODUCTION CREDIT: \u00a0Commissioned by the ABC. \u00a0A Lune Media Production. \u00a0Principal Production and Development Funding by Screen Australia. \u00a0Financed in association with Screen NSW; and with the assistance of VicHealth. \u00a0Host: \u00a0Craig Reucassel. \u00a0Series Director: Jodi Boylan. \u00a0Series Producer: \u00a0Geraldine Packer. \u00a0Executive Producers: \u00a0Jodi Boylan, David Galloway, Leonie Lowe. \u00a0ABC Commissioning Editor: \u00a0Julie Hanna. \u00a0ABC Head of Documentary and Specialist: \u00a0Susie Jones. \u00a0Worldwide Distribution by ABC Commercial.<\/p>\n<p>Posted\u00a0Tue 13 Oct 2026 at 4:21pmTue 13 Oct 2026 at 4:21pmTue 13 Oct 2026 at 4:21pm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australians are being sold a diet of ultra-processed foods, but what is it really doing to our health?\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":926496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[64,63,137,532],"class_list":["post-926495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nutrition","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-health","tag-nutrition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=926495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/926496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=926495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=926495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}