27 Facts About Vani Hari

Vani Hari started the Food Babe blog in 2011, and it received over 54 million views in 2014.

Vani Hari started the Food Babe blog in 2011, and left Accenture in 2012 to devote her time to activism and blogging, as well as marketing dietary and other products.

Vani Hari has over 97,000 Twitter followers, and an official Facebook page with over one million likes.

In 2011, Vani Hari wrote a piece about ingredients in Chick-fil-A sandwiches which she alleged to be harmful.

Vani Hari has said that President Barack Obama did not keep a promise that he made during his 2008 presidential campaign to force the labeling of genetically modified food.

In March 2013, Vani Hari posted her first petition on Change.

In 2013, Vani Hari wrote about the use of class IV caramel color in Newcastle Brown Ale on her blog and put public pressure on them to drop this ingredient.

In February 2014, Vani Hari launched a petition on her website asking Subway to remove azodicarbonamide from their sandwich bread.

The Center For Science In The Public Interest, who advocates for its reduction, credited Vani Hari for drawing attention to it.

In June 2014, Vani Hari posted a petition asking major brewers to list the ingredients in their products, something which US brewers are not required to do.

Vani Hari noted that Starbucks does not publish their ingredients online and pointed out the use of class IV caramel color and the lack of real pumpkin in Starbucks's Pumpkin Spice Latte.

Vani Hari took credit for this change, claiming to have emailed them monthly for updates.

On February 5,2015, Vani Hari launched a petition on her website asking General Mills and Kellogg's to remove the preservative butylated hydroxytoluene from their cereals.

Vani Hari's site had a reported 52 million visitors in 2014 and over 3 million unique visitors per month.

Vani Hari released her second book, Feeding You Lies: How to Unravel the Food Industry's Playbook and Reclaim Your Health, in February 2019.

Vani Hari has received wide criticism concerning the accuracy, consistency, and presentation of her many claims.

Vani Hari is a former management consultant who has a degree in computer science, and has no expertise in nutrition or food science.

Vani Hari has been accused of banning dissenters from the Food Babe LLC social media accounts in order to create an echo chamber.

Social media groups for people who have been banned by Vani Hari have sprung up as a result of these tactics.

Vani Hari has been criticized by scientists and others for promoting pseudoscience.

Kevin Folta has accused Vani Hari of being "afraid of scientific engagement".

Chemistry professor Joseph A Schwarcz, director of McGill University's Office for Science and Society states Hari "has no understanding of chemistry or food science" and that "her scientific background is nonexistent".

Vani Hari describes azodicarbonamide, a chemical Hari opposes the usage of, as being safe for use in food but unessential.

Vani Hari later described the post as not her "most impressive piece of work" and noted that it was written when she had first started blogging.

Vani Hari deleted the post, later claiming it contained an "inadvertent error".

Vani Hari's position was criticized as false and dangerous by the American Council on Science and Health.

Vani Hari's critics have drawn attention to her affiliated marketing partnerships with organic and non-GMO brands from which she profits by recommending them over mainstream brands.