Title:
Salt, sugar, fat : how the food giants hooked us / Michael Moss.
ISBN:
9781400069804
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Random House, [2013]
©2013
Physical Description:
xxx, 446 pages ; 25 cm
Contents:
"The company jewels" -- Sugar. "Exploiting the biology of the child" ; "How do you get people to crave?" ; "Convenience with a Capital 'C'" ; "Is it cereal or candy?" ; "I want to see a lot of body bags" ; "A burst of fruity aroma" -- Fat. "That gooey, sticky mouthfeel" ; "Liquid gold" ; "Lunchtime is all yours" ; "The message the government conveys" ; "No sugar, no fat, no sales" -- Salt. "People love salt" ; "The same great salty taste your customers crave" ; "I feel so sorry for the public" -- "We're hooked on inexpensive food."
Summary:
A journey into the highly secretive world of the processed food giants, and the story of how they have deployed the three essential ingredients, sugar, salt, and fat, over the past five decades, to dominate the North American diet.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader UG 10.2 26 160486
OCLC Number:
ocn795758158
Availability:
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