5 Chemicals That Are in (Almost) Everything You Eat
Discover 5 key chemicals that we use to make our food taste the way it's supposed to taste, look the way we expect it to look, and generally survive the journey to ...
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If you live in a place with lots of people, decent internet, and maybe a 7/11 within walking distance... then you're probably used to getting your food in certain familiar forms. Like this! Or this! Or maybe... this! Fewer and fewer of us these days get our sustenance in ways that most of us would consider natural, right-off-the-branch or off-the-bone. Instead, especially in industrialized countries, a lot of our food is processed far away from where we actually eat it. So we've had to devise all kinds of clever ways to make our food taste the way it's supposed to taste, and look the way we expect it to look, and generally survive the journey to our tables intact. For about a 150 years the science of food chemistry has given us things like strawberry candy that...
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If you live in a place with lots of people, decent internet, and maybe a 7/11 within walking distance... then you're probably used to getting your food in certain familiar forms. Like this! Or this! Or maybe... this! Fewer and fewer of us these days get our sustenance in ways that most of us would consider natural, right-off-the-branch or off-the-bone. Instead, especially in industrialized countries, a lot of our food is processed far away from where we actually eat it. So we've had to devise all kinds of clever ways to make our food taste the way it's supposed to taste, and look the way we expect it to look, and generally survive the journey to our tables intact. For about a 150 years the science of food chemistry has given us things like strawberry candy that...
