Salt Sugar Fat
The author explores his theory that the food industry's used three essential ingredients to control much of the world's diet. Traces the rise of the processed food industry and how addictive salt, sugar, and fat have enabled its dominance in the past half century, revealing deliberate corporate practices behind current trends in obesity, diabetes, and other health challenges. Features examples from some of the most recognizable and profitable companies and brands of the last half century, including Kraft, Coca-Cola, Lunchables, Kellogg, Frito-Lay, Nestlé, Oreos, Cargill, Capri Sun, and many more.
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Pulitzer-winning reporter Michael Moss takes readers inside Kraft, Coca-Cola, Frito-Lay, and Kellogg to show how chemists, marketers, and engineers tune salt, sugar, and fat to the brain's bliss point.
Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us was written by Michael Moss and published in 2013. Moss is a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter; the book draws on extensive original investigation of the processed-food industry.
Yes. Salt Sugar Fat won the James Beard Foundation Book Award for Writing and Literature in 2014. Michael Moss had previously won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting.
Salt Sugar Fat is 463 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Salt Sugar Fat takes most readers 7 to 10 hours to finish.
Salt Sugar Fat is a standalone novel by Michael Moss, not part of a series.
Salt Sugar Fat is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.