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The ingredient that's even worse than Sugar:
Maltodextrin
It's hiding in your favorite chips, yogurt, cereals, protein powder, and even in baby formula.
While the manufacturers claim that your food is sugar-free, everyone's missing this scary... See more
Foods are mostly built out of just four kinds of molecules—water, proteins, carbohydrates, and fats. And their behavior can be pretty well described with a few simple principles. If you know that heat is a manifestation of the movements of molecules, and that sufficiently energetic collisions disrupt the structures of molecules and eventually break... See more
Harold McGee • On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
The reporting
Michael Moss • Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
Regulating Sausages - Marginal REVOLUTION
marginalrevolution.com
High Fructose corn sugar was the result of [neomania](https://www.shortform.com/blog/neomania-antifragile/), financed by a Nixon administration in love with technology and victim of some urge to subsidize corn farmers
Stronger oils can be so spicy that you may find yourself coughing from the heat—which is actually a classification of oil quality!
Paul Grewal • Genius Foods: Become Smarter, Happier, and More Productive While Protecting Your Brain for Life (Genius Living Book 1)
Avoid food products containing ingredients that no ordinary human would keep in the pantry.
Michael Pollan • Food Rules
Nonorganic, nonfermented soy products: Tofu.