diff --git a/app/src/main/java/com/readrops/app/database/entities/Feed.java b/app/src/main/java/com/readrops/app/database/entities/Feed.java
index 4a9f6523..1fef438a 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/com/readrops/app/database/entities/Feed.java
+++ b/app/src/main/java/com/readrops/app/database/entities/Feed.java
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ import com.readrops.readropslibrary.localfeed.json.JSONFeed;
 import com.readrops.readropslibrary.localfeed.rss.RSSChannel;
 import com.readrops.readropslibrary.localfeed.rss.RSSFeed;
 
+import org.jsoup.Jsoup;
+
 import static android.arch.persistence.room.ForeignKey.NO_ACTION;
 
 @Entity(foreignKeys = @ForeignKey(entity = Folder.class, parentColumns = "id", childColumns = "folder_id", onDelete = ForeignKey.SET_NULL))
@@ -185,7 +187,7 @@ public class Feed implements Parcelable {
         Feed feed = new Feed();
         RSSChannel channel = rssFeed.getChannel();
 
-        feed.setName(channel.getTitle());
+        feed.setName(Jsoup.parse(channel.getTitle()).text());
         feed.setUrl(channel.getFeedUrl());
         feed.setSiteUrl(channel.getUrl());
         feed.setDescription(channel.getDescription());
diff --git a/app/src/main/java/com/readrops/app/database/entities/Item.java b/app/src/main/java/com/readrops/app/database/entities/Item.java
index 56de02de..fc0427a0 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/com/readrops/app/database/entities/Item.java
+++ b/app/src/main/java/com/readrops/app/database/entities/Item.java
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import com.readrops.readropslibrary.localfeed.rss.RSSItem;
 import com.readrops.readropslibrary.localfeed.rss.RSSMediaContent;
 
 import org.joda.time.LocalDateTime;
+import org.jsoup.Jsoup;
 
 import java.text.ParseException;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
@@ -172,7 +173,7 @@ public class Item {
             newItem.setContent(item.getContent());
             newItem.setDescription(item.getDescription());
             newItem.setGuid(item.getGuid());
-            newItem.setTitle(item.getTitle());
+            newItem.setTitle(Jsoup.parse(item.getTitle()).text());
 
             // I wish I hadn't done that...
             if (Pattern.compile(DateUtils.RSS_ALTERNATIVE_DATE_FORMAT_REGEX).matcher(item.getDate()).matches())