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Swallow This: Serving Up the Food Industry´s Darkest Secrets
Joanna Blythman
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Description for Swallow This: Serving Up the Food Industry´s Darkest Secrets
Paperback. From the author of What to Eat and Shopped, a revelatory investigation into what really goes into the food we eat. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: KNDF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. Weight in Grams: 220.
From the author of What to Eat and Shopped, a revelatory investigation into what really goes into the food we eat. Even with 25 years experience as a journalist and investigator of the food chain, Joanna Blythman still felt she had unanswered questions about the food we consume every day. How `natural' is the process for making a `natural' flavouring? What, exactly, is modified starch, and why is it an ingredient in so many foods? What is done to pitta bread to make it stay `fresh' for six months? And why, when you eat a supermarket salad, ... Read more
From the author of What to Eat and Shopped, a revelatory investigation into what really goes into the food we eat. Even with 25 years experience as a journalist and investigator of the food chain, Joanna Blythman still felt she had unanswered questions about the food we consume every day. How `natural' is the process for making a `natural' flavouring? What, exactly, is modified starch, and why is it an ingredient in so many foods? What is done to pitta bread to make it stay `fresh' for six months? And why, when you eat a supermarket salad, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780007548354
SKU
V9780007548354
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99-99
About Joanna Blythman
Joanna Blythman is Britain's leading investigative food journalist and an influential commentator on the British food chain. She has won five Glenfiddich awards for her writing, including a Glenfiddich Special Award for her first book The Food We Eat, a Caroline Walker Media Award for Improving the Nation's Health by Means of Good Food, and a Guild of Food Writers ... Read more
Reviews for Swallow This: Serving Up the Food Industry´s Darkest Secrets
`In this fine book, Blythman uses a long spoon to sup with the devils of our daily diet.' The Times `Outstanding ... Blythman is never holier than thou - she recognises that people, herself included, need and want convenience food. Her argument is simply that we have a right to know what's really in it, right down ... Read more