Three days ago it was rhubarb. But today it’s bananas on the Daily Express front page, claiming that the nation’s most popular fruit can cure… well, almost everything.
Only on Tuesday was the Daily Express front page telling its readers that rhubarb could cure cancer. But on closer inspection, the story soon crumbled. An ingredient in rhubarb, parietin, could destroy cancer cells in a dish, but there was no evidence that it could work on humans.
There wasn’t any proof in the pudding, and the Express ended up with custard on its face (or rather on its front page).
