How the Food Giants Hooked Us
by Michael Moss
Recommended by Scott Adams and Sharon Hayes
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See customer reviews on Amazon →Salt Sugar Fat reads like long-form investigative journalism. It connects lab tricks, marketing tactics, and calorie-saturated products to explain why processed foods dominate modern diets. Its most useful material is the reportage: clear data, factory and industry anecdotes, and concrete examples that help you spot engineered palatability. Limitations: the narrative repeats similar revelations and sometimes tilts toward indignation rather than solutions, so readers wanting short how-to guidance or tight summarization may find it drawn-out.
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Every year, the average American eats 33 pounds of cheese and 70 pounds of sugar. They ingest 8,500 milligrams of salt a day, double the recommended amount, almost none of which comes from salt shakers. It comes from processed food, an industry that hauls in $1 trillion in annual sales. In Salt Sugar Fat, Pulitzer Prizewinning investigative report...
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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Nutrition, Food, and Hobbies.
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