Pandora's lunchbox : how processed food took over the American meal

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Pandora's lunchbox : how processed food took over the American meal

Title remainder

how processed food took over the American meal

Statement of responsibility

Melanie Warner

Creator

• Warner, Melanie

Subject

• Food industry and trade -- United States
• HEALTH & FITNESS / Nutrition
• Food additives -- Health aspects
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Agriculture & Food
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
• Processed foods -- Health aspects

Language

eng

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? The author, a former New 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 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

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

338.4/766400973

Index

no index present

LC call number

HD9000.5

LC item number

.W339 2013

Literary form

non fiction