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101 Facts You Should Know About Food
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Author: sanraj
Forum: E-books
Date: 2009-06-21

101 Facts You Should Know About Food

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Icon Books Ltd [-] ISBN-10: 1-84046-767-3 | English | PDF | 209 Pages | 740 KB |

Introduction
Food is the one thing none of us can do without. Fortunately very few of us in the developed world ever have to. Yet strangely, in these times of plenty, food is talked about more and more. In the past, most people had very little choice over what they ate. Nowadays, we are genuinely spoiled for choice. Supermarkets provide a year-round cornucopia of foodstuffs from all over the world. Restaurants serve a bewildering variety of cuisines. TV chefs entertain us with a host of different dishes that we could make if we put our minds to it. It seems as if, as the choice grows, we begin to question more and more if we are making the right choice. Maybe we should avoid food containing trans-fats because it’s bad for our health? Maybe we should eat berries because they are rich in anti - oxidants that slow ageing? Maybe we should buy organic because it’s good for the environment? Sometimes we even wonder if we should eat food at all, because it could be contaminated by bac - t eria that cause food poisoning or
additives that cause cancer. Faced with such a dilemma, you could, of course, simply give up and eat whatever you fancy on a day-to-day basis, and damn the consequences. But our choices do have consequences, not just for us and our health, but for the health of the world, too. The aim of this book is to arm you with 101 facts about food that will help you make an informed choice.As you read, you may learn things, as I did when compiling the book, that might just make you rethink some of your choices.The wealth of choice we have, for instance, comes at a cost. Someone has to grow our food. Someone has to supply it. Someone has to sell it. The choices we make have a profound effect on all parts of the chain that brings food to our tables. On the day I finished writing this book, the initial report of a UK Competition Commission investigating the power of supermarkets was due. Early signs suggested that, despite worries, they could not find any real reason for thinking that the supermarkets were abusing their dominance of the food market. Supermarkets, with some justification, claim that they are only giving us what we want – a wide choice of cheap, convenient, tasty food all year round. The challenge is: if we want anything different – if we want our food produced in a different way – then it’s up to us to make that choice clear.

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