Pandora's lunchbox : how processed food took over the American meal / Melanie Warner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Warner, Melanie.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food industry and trade--United States.

Food industry and trade.

Food additives--Health aspects.

Food additives.

Processed foods.

United States.

Processed foods--Health aspects.

Physical Description:

xvii, 267 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First Scribner hardcover edition.

Other Title:

Pandora's lunch-box

Place of Publication:

New York : Scribner, 2013.

Summary:

"If a piece of individually wrapped cheese retains its shape, color, and texture for years, what does it say about the food we eat and feed our children? Former "New York Times" business reporter and mother Melanie Warner decided to explore that question when she observed the phenomenon of the indestructible cheese. She began an investigative journey that takes her to research labs, food science departments, and factories around the country. What she discovered provides a rare, eye-opening--and sometimes disturbing--account of what we're really eating. Warner looks at how decades of food science have resulted in the cheapest, most abundant, most addictive, and most nutritionally devastating food in the world, and she uncovers startling evidence about the profound health implications of the packaged and fast foods that we eat on a daily basis."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Weird science

The crusading chemist

The quest for eternal cheese

Extruded and gun puffed

Putting Humpty Dumpty back together again

Better living through chemistry

The joy of soy

Extended meat

Why chicken needs chicken flavor

Healthy processed food

Sit at home and chew.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781451666731

145166673X

OCLC:

812258027

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