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

By: Warner, Melanie.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Scribner, 2013Edition: 1st Scribner hardcover ed.General Notes: Includes index.Description: xvii, 267 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781451666731 (hbk.); 145166673X (hbk.).Other title: Pandora's lunch-box.Subject(s): Food industry and trade -- United States | Processed foods -- Health aspects | Food additives -- Health aspectsDDC classification: 338.4/766400973
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.
Summary: If individually wrapped cheese retains its shape, color, and texture for years, what does it say about the food we eat? The author explores the question of the indestructible cheese and provides an account of the additives and nutritional value of the food we're eating.
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Includes index.

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.

If individually wrapped cheese retains its shape, color, and texture for years, what does it say about the food we eat? The author explores the question of the indestructible cheese and provides an account of the additives and nutritional value of the food we're eating.

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