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Narrado por:
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Mark Lund
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Steve Ettlinger
In this fascinating exploration into the curious world of packaged foods, Twinkie, Deconstructed takes us from the phosphate mines in Idaho to the corn fields in Iowa, from gypsum mines in Oklahoma to oil fields in China, to demystify some of America's most common processed food ingredients: where they come from, how they are made, how they are used, and why.
Beginning at the source, we follow each Twinkie ingredient through the process of being crushed, baked, fermented, refined, and/or reacted into a totally unrecognizable goo or powder with a strange name - all for the sake of creating a simple snack cake. If you've ever wondered what you're eating when you consume foods containing mono- and diglycerides or calcium sulfate (the latter is a food-grade equivalent of plaster of paris), this book is for you.
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"[A] delightful romp through the food processing industry." (Publishers Weekly)
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Great book
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The book would have been 10 times better if he took some of the day's criticisms of GM foods and either applied them or argued against them using these ingredients as a starting point. In the end, it felt as if he just accepted everything told to him and didn't critically analyze very much. I kept wanting him to question what he was hearing, instead of just telling us. There were so many questions he raised, but very few answered. In the end, he basically says 'it's all natural,' so go eat an Twinkie. I was hoping for more insight into what we are actually eating- not just the scientific definitions.
Has all the ingredients but still missing ...
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Awesome and very well written
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Now you know . . .
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I Love This Book
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I went to Amazon and read the reviews there and found out that most people found the book not only interesting but not overly preachy about processed foods.
I liked the books format, the narration and the content. I work in agriculture with both organic and non-organic farmers and found the book to be a rather fun romp through the food chain. Like it or not, it's an accurate and truthful romp.
Interesting, but not hyped
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1. Bleached Flour: Chlorine Can Kill You
2. Enriched Flour = Adding Petroleum, Ore, and Fungi into your Diet
3. Food-Grade Iron: Ground up rust or manufactured steel waste product
4. Modified cornstarch: a chemical bath with chlorine and hydrochloric acid
5. GMO Soy Beans: Like Cockroaches, Immune to Herbicides
6. Partially Hydrogenized Crème Filling: filling you up with chronic disease one bite at a time!
7. Cellulose Gum: absorbs water, acids, and bleaches
8. Polysorbate 60: a plastic subingredient that makes food as hard as, well, plastic
9. Diacetyl and Butyric Acid: the chemicals that artificial butter and vomit shares
10. Artificial Vanilla: Toxically synthesized melting pot for non-food flavors
11. Sodium stearoyl lactylate: the delicious soapy wax emulsifier
12. Sorbic Acid: from flammability to poison to preservation
13. Food Coloring: Eating Paint
I am a lot more educated about how many artificially fabricated, toxically manufactured, or just plain gross ingredients go into snack foods like Twinkies. Of course industry experts assure us that all poison is removed in the final product, so that’s a relief.
My main complaint is that the author doesn’t necessarily take a stance one way or the other. He details example after example of all the volatile, hazardous, and caustic chemical processes involved to concoct artificial Twinkie ingredients like enriched (ground-up metals) bleached (chlorinated) flour and modified (genetically altered) cornstarch. Then he demystifies other ingredients, explaining how the eggs in Twinkies are actually a chemically altered powdered egg substrate, but because the FDA requires that ingredients be called the most common name, Hostess gets away with just calling them “eggs” in their ingredients list. Finally, the author talks out the other side of his mouth to call them miracle foods or wonders of modern science or that since all food is chemicals, it’s all good. Huh???
All in all, I feel more enlightened and less likely to buy a Twinkie.
Bleached Flour: Chlorine Can Kill You
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The title was the most interesting part!
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waste of time
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