| Description |
xvi, 299 pages : illustrations; 24 cm |
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Includes an index. |
| Contents |
Processed food is bad for you, right? -- Plants are trying to kill you -- Microbes are trying to eat your food -- The smoking gun, or what certainty looks like -- Sunburnt to a crisp, or what less certainty looks like -- Is coffee the elixir of life or blood of the devil? -- Associations, or the grapes of math -- What's that public pool smell made of? -- You're late for a very important date -- So what do I do? |
| Summary |
"Cheese puffs. Coffee. Sunscreen. Vapes. George Zaidan reveals what will kill you, what won't, and why-explained with high-octane hilarity, hysterical hijinks, and other things that don't begin with the letter H. Ingredients offers the perspective of a chemist on the stuff we eat, drink, inhale, and smear on ourselves. Apart from the burning question of whether you should eat that Cheeto, Zaidan explores a range of topics"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Food -- Composition.
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Nutrition.
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Diet.
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Chemicals -- Popular works.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Zaidan, George. Ingredients [New York] : Dutton, [2020] 9781524744281 (DLC) 2019055456 |
| ISBN |
9781524744274 hardcover |
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1524744271 hardcover |
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9781524744298 paperback |
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1524744298 paperback |
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9781524744281 electronic book |
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