{"id":653269,"date":"2026-10-13T08:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T08:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/653269\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T08:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T08:44:08","slug":"the-great-food-con-first-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/653269\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Great Food Con&#8217; (First Look)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In ABC\u2019s three-part documentary The Great Food Con, Craig Reucassel investigates the industry behind some of the nation\u2019s most popular foods. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Through experiments, undercover investigations and expert analysis, The Great Food Con exposes the marketing, misinformation and industry influence shaping what Australians eat every day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Great Food Con is a Lune Media production for the ABC with principal production and development funding from Screen Australia. The series was financed in association with Screen NSW and with the assistance of VicHealth. Jodi Boylan directed the series and also executive produced with David Galloway and Leonie Lowe. Geraldine Packer was series producer, while the creative team also included ABC commissioning editor\u00a0Julie Hanna, and ABC head of documentary and specialist\u00a0Susie Jones. ABC Commercial is handling worldwide distribution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Great Food Con premieres Tuesday November 24 at 8pm on ABC TV, with all episodes available to stream on ABC iview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In ABC\u2019s three-part documentary The Great Food Con, Craig Reucassel investigates the industry behind some of the nation\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":653270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[2976,103,61,60,276974,446,276975],"class_list":["post-653269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nutrition","tag-abc","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-lune-media","tag-nutrition","tag-the-great-food-con"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}