Pandora's lunchbox : how processed food took over the American meal / Melanie Warner.
2013
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Title
Pandora's lunchbox : how processed food took over the American meal / Melanie Warner.
Author
Warner, Melanie.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
ISBN
9781451666731
145166673X
9781451666748 (pbk.)
1451666748 (pbk.)
145166673X
9781451666748 (pbk.)
1451666748 (pbk.)
Published
New York : Scribner, [2013]
Language
English
Description
xvii, 267 pages ; 24 cm
Call Number
HD9000.5 .W339 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification
338.4/766400973
Summary
From breakfast cereal to frozen pizza to nutrition bars, processed foods are a fundamental part of our diet, accounting for 65% of our nation's yearly calories. Over the past century, technology has transformed the American meal into a chemical-laden smorgasbord of manipulated food products that bear little resemblence to what our grandparents ate. Despite the growing presence of farmers' markets and organic offerings, food additives and chemical preservatives are nearly impossible to avoid, and even the most ostensibly healthy foods contain multisyllabic ingredients with nearly untraceable origins. The far-reaching implications of the industrialization of the food supply that privleges cheap, plentiful, and fast food have been well documented. They are dire. But how did we ever reach the point where 'pink slime' is an acceptable food product? Is anybody regulating what makes it into our food? What, after all, is actually safe to eat? Here the author, a former York Times health columnist combines deep investigatory reporting, culinary history, and cultural analysis, to find out how we got here and what it is we are really eating. This book blows the lid off the largely undocumented world of processed foods and food manipulation. From the vitamin "enrichments" to our fortified cereals and bread, to the soy mixtures that bolster chicken (and often outweigh the actual chicken included), the author lays bare the dubious nutritional value and misleading labels of chemically-treated foods, as well as the potential price we, and our children, may pay. -- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-245) and index.
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Table of 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 foods
Sit at home and chew.
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 foods
Sit at home and chew.