Swallow This: Serving Up the Food Industry’s Darkest Secrets
Written by Joanna Blythman
Narrated by Jessica Ball
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About this audiobook
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.
Joanna Blythman
Joanna Blythman is Britain's leading investigative food journalist. She has won four Glenfiddich awards for her writing, a Caroline Walker Media Award for 'Improving the Nation's Health by Means of Good Food', and a Guild of Food Writers Award for The Food We Eat. In 2004, she won the prestigious Derek Cooper Award, one of BBC Radio 4's Food and Farming Awards. She writes and broadcasts frequently on food issues.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Now I'm all for science improving food, protecting me from getting food poisoning etc, but I also like my food to be a bit more honest. I'm not one of those people who proudly (apparently) exclaim that they don't eat anything they can't pronounce, I can pronounce 2, 4, di-nitrophenylhydrazine without really stopping to think as I was a science student once upon a time. I would also have missed out on quinoa (who knew I was pronouncing it wrong for years? No-one around me!) and Japanese Foods among others. Yes, I believe that there should me more transparency and less lax regulations about what our food is being mixed with and washed with to ensure that it doesn't cause problems with people.This is an interesting read and there needs to be more research in this area and less acceptance of flavourings and colourings over food that comes from more core ingredients, more acceptance of natural variations and less addition of things that tend to make my mouth feel strange after eating.