Swallow This: Serving Up the Food Industry's Darkest Secrets
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Narrated by:
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Jessica Ball
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Joanna Blythman
About this listen
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, does the taste linger in your mouth for several hours after?
Swallow This is a fascinating exploration of the food processing industry and its products – not just the more obvious ready meals, chicken nuggets and tinned soups, but the less overtly industrial – washed salads, smoothies, yoghurts, cereal bars, bread, fruit juice, prepared vegetables. Forget illegal, horse-meat-scandal processes, every step in the production of these is legal, but practised by a strange and inaccessible industry, with methods a world-away from our idea of domestic food preparation, and obscured by technical speak, unintelligible ingredients manuals, and clever labelling practices.
Determined to get to the bottom of the impact the industry has on our food, Joanna Blythman has gained unprecedented access to factories, suppliers and industry insiders, to give an utterly eye-opening account of what we’re really swallowing.
©2015 Joanna Blythman (P)2015 HarperCollins Publishers LimitedCritic Reviews
"A rare book, practical, sensible, and passionate. Joanna Blythman writes with clarity, sanity and humanity. Anyone interested in food and cooking should read it." (Matthew Fort)
"A succinct and badly needed encyclopaedia of facts and common sense on food and nutrition for which I am truly grateful. The introduction alone is worth the price of the book." (Darina Allen)
"Everyone who cares about what they eat and how they feed their family should read this" ( Daily Mail)
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- 30-05-2021
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I really enjoyed this audiobook....well maybe enjoyed is the wrong word. I found it fascinating & at the same time terrifying; how the food industry is slowly poisoning us for profit & shelf life. The author has done well not to be sued for leaking out these hidden secrets that are constantly remarketed into sneaky buzzwords on packaging. I wondered where all the E numbers went. The narrator has a wonderful clear tone & did well with many of the long scientific chemical words. If you are concerned about your health & what's going into your mouth, this is an outstanding read or listen.
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