‘Deliciously’ Ella Mills on healthy eating and society's toxic relationship with ultra-processed foods
Ways to Change the World with Krishnan Guru-Murthy
Channel 4 News
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Ella Mills is the best-selling food writer and founder of Deliciously Ella, the food blog-turned-brand which she created in 2012 after a sudden debilitating illness led her to overhaul her diet and turn to plant-based foods as a way to get better.
Since then, Mills has become a key player in bringing healthy food to the mainstream, with a brand whose 100 plant-based, additive-free products are now sold in all major UK supermarkets, and whose revenue is estimated to be £20 million. But this huge success has come with vicious trolling and personal attacks online - and it’s only now that Mills has finally come to terms with it.
Today on Ways to Change the World, she tells Krishnan Guru-Murthy about the story behind Deliciously Ella, why a change in our diets towards more fresh, plant-based foods cannot happen unless the government steps in, and acknowledging the difference between her privilege and her business success.
Produced by Silvia Maresca.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Ways to Change the World. I'm Christian Guru Murphy and this is the |
| 0:06.9 | podcast in which we talk to extraordinary people about the big ideas in their lives and the |
| 0:11.2 | events that have helped shape them. My guest this week does |
| 0:15.1 | have some big ideas and they were very directly shaped by her own life experience. |
| 0:19.9 | Ella Mills is a food writer, sort of blogger originally and businesswoman and the face of |
| 0:28.6 | deliciously Ella, which is the range of foods that you'll see in all sorts of supermarkets now and a best-selling |
| 0:36.0 | author. Her book about healthy eating, plant-based eating was a huge bestseller about 10 years ago and she has since published various |
| 0:46.3 | follow-ups and her new one is called Healthy Made Simple. Welcome. Thank you |
| 0:51.0 | so much. |
| 0:58.0 | And Healthy Made Simple, I mean, suppose the idea behind it is that we don't have a lot of time in our lives, especially at your stage in life when you're mother of young children, |
| 1:02.0 | and you need to do it all a bit more quickly. |
| 1:04.3 | That's it exactly I think so many of us over the last 10 years as you said since the first |
| 1:09.6 | cookbook came out and since I changed my diet we've had this increased understanding about the food |
| 1:15.6 | that we're eating and the impact that it has on us and so many people have such good intentions |
| 1:20.7 | to try and change the way they're eating because they know that so much of what they're |
| 1:24.3 | eating maybe isn't giving them the best health. But actually doing that in reality when you've got a |
| 1:29.4 | busy job, you've got other responsibilities is very different and so the aim with this book was |
| 1:35.0 | really to break that down it's 30 minute meals it's under 10 ingredients it's how can |
| 1:39.7 | you take the intention and I guess translate it into something that feels plausible after work. |
| 1:45.0 | Right, sum up what the intention is. What's the intention about now? |
| 1:50.0 | Yeah, look for me it's quite simple. I want to show people how to eat real food again. |
| 1:54.3 | It's more plants for more people more of the time and that's not about becoming 100% plant-based. |
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