In this episode, host Andy Tattersall is joined by public health researcher Dr Lucie Nield to lift the lid on dark kitchens - the hidden hubs behind the booming online takeaway industry. Are these kitchens - which have taken advantage of the post-Covid growth in the takeaway delivery - an innovation or a public health concern? We explore how they’re changing the way we eat, what it means for nutrition and regulation, and how they have grown to become a massive industry that we cannot ignore any longer.
Dr Lucie Nield who is a dietician and nutritionist at the University of Sheffield. Lucie specialises in weight management, diabetes, and health inequalities and her research explores the socio-cultural aspects of food, lived experiences, and whole systems thinking. Consumer knowledge of and engagement with traditional takeaway and dark kitchen food outlets