The Salad With a Side of Fries podcast is hosted by Jenn Trepeck, discussing wellness and weight loss for real life, clearing up the myths, misinformation, bad science & marketing surrounding our nutrition knowledge and the food industry. Let’s dive into wellness and weight loss for real life, including drinking, eating out, and skipping the grocery store.On today’s episode of Salad With A Side Of Fries, we challenge our ingredient IQ with guest Nick Naclerio. Nick is the founder and CEO of Mmmly, a company that makes modern, nutrient dense, premium, delicious cookies. Nick discusses his past eating disorder, fueled by sugar and bad food sources from a broken food system. Through his healing journey, Nick made it his mission to source healthier options that truly provided his body with what it needs to thrive. Listen in as Nick and Jenn discuss processed foods, the importance of reading nutrition labels, what we want to see or avoid in the ingredient list, and the power of eating nutrient rich foods.IN THIS EPISODE:●   [04:20] Nick’s history and what led to his eating disorder. ●   [10:22] Seeing food in a different capacity at Culinary school.●   [15:45] Specific packaged foods lack nutritional value.●   [18:50] The ability to look at a nutrition label and make an educated decision if it is healthful or not.●   [22:00] Mmmly uses functional ingredients to provide nutritional value while still creating delicious cookies. ●   [25:15] Using food to create balance within your body.KEY TAKEAWAYS:●   Eating disorders, including a sugar addiction, could stem from a whole lot of reasons in someone’s past. ●   It’s important to have your own knowledge and be able to read labels and make your own educated decisions when buying packaged food. ●   The classic foods that we love can be healthy. Utilizing functional foods and ingredients can result in food that is not only nutritionally valuable, but also delicious.QUOTES:“Many of us are in the process of finding our own balance. We go between extremes or we tend to over-correct.” Jenn Trepeck“You should be able to eat the foods that you love any time of the day and feel really great about it and know that it’s actually nourishing your body.” Nick Naclerio“There are many chemically produced and man-made ingredients that should not go in our bodies.” Nick NaclerioRESOURCES:Become A Member of Salad with a Side of FriesJenn’s Free Menu PlanA Salad With a Side of FriesA Salad With a Side of Fries InstagramGUEST RESOURCES: Eat Mmmly WebsiteMMMLY InstagramMMMLY FacebookNick Naclerio InstagramGUEST BIO:Nicholas Naclerio is the founder of Mmmly, a company which makes modern, nutrient-dense, premium cookies. Their soft, indulgent cookies are low-sugar, gluten-free, grain free, and full of prebiotics. Nick's mission with Mmmly stems from his own eating disorder with sugar and bad food sourced from a broken food system. His own healing led him to look for healthier options that truly provided his body with what it needed to thrive. Learning to care for himself snowballed into a mission to change food for others.