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Swallow This: Serving Up the Food Industry's Darkest Secrets
- Narrated by: Jessica Ball
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
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Summary
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.
Critic 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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- vincent
- 20-07-15
Will change the way you eat.
This audio book was very informative if a little scary and gross sometimes.
Since starting this book I have change the way I eat. It makes you think twice before eating any food let alone processed food.
Some of the "extra" ingredients lists got a bit long and boring. But highlight what processes most if not all the food we eat "fresh" or not.
A great listen.
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- PE
- 03-10-16
Phenomenal
This book is incredible! It highlights the bond-like villainy of the food industry and opened my eyes (and closed my mouth) to so many foods. If you thought e numbers and horse meat was bad, just wait until you hear this...
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- Davie
- 12-04-22
I learned a lot
Really enjoyed this book, there's a ton of good information here and the narration was great. Highly recommended
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- Terri
- 31-05-20
Good facts but not an easy listen
I really struggled to listen to this book. The facts presented are really interesting but I'm afraid it's a dull listen. I know there's not a particularly interesting way to read numbers aloud, but it's a shame there wasn't more life put into the narration.
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- Anna Iskenderova
- 18-03-21
An eye opener.
Very interesting and informative. The scary bit is that now I can't eat anything - know too much.
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- Joanna
- 16-11-19
An eye opening book even for a health coach
This is such a blessing that there are determined enough people like the author to pursue truths about food industry. Highly recommended!
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- Tegan de Silva
- 01-02-17
Scary
Scary but it's important we know the truth and how industrialised the food industry is and that it's profit not public health that it has in mind.
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- li
- 14-06-15
Really good inside information
Good. Will need to listen again as there is lots of detailed information. The processed food industry is pretty repulsive!
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- Ania
- 16-09-15
Informative
Very good read. It will definitely make me think twice before I buy another ready meal. I will definitely make more food myself.
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- Anonymous User
- 01-11-21
Incredibly eye opening book
Would recommend this to everyone!! Scary but insightful and essential for anyone living in this modern day.
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