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Books About Processed Food

Interested in learning about unhealthy additives, refined sugars, factory farming and the myriad chemicals in the food we eat today? Try one of these books.

Chicago Public Library

27 items

  • Animal, Vegetable, Junk

    a History of Food, From Sustainable to Suicidal

    Bittman, Mark,
    BookBoston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021. — GT2853.U5B58 2021
  • An Apple a Day

    the Myths, Misconceptions, and Truths About the Foods We Eat

    Schwarcz, Joe
    BookNew York : Other Press, c2009. — TX355.S3475 2009
  • A Consumer's Guide to Toxic Food Additives

    How to Avoid Synthetic Sweeteners, Artificial Colors, MSG, and More

    Bonvie, Linda,
    PaperbackNew York, NY : Skyhorse Publishing, [2020] — TX553.A3B66 2020
  • Fast Food Genocide

    How Processed Food Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It

    Fuhrman, Joel,
    BookNew York, NY : HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017] — TX357.F84 2017
  • Fast Food Nation

    the Dark Side of the all-American Meal

    Schlosser, Eric
    BookNew York : Harper Perennial, 2005, c2002. — TX945.3.S355 2005
  • Food Fight

    GMOs and the Future of the American Diet

    Jenkins, McKay, 1963-
    BookNew York : Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House, [2017] — SB123.57.J46 2017
  • Food or Fiction?

    the Truth About the Ultraprocessed Foods Making America Sick

    Kessler, David A., 1951-
    PaperbackNew York : Harper, [2024] — TX553.C28K47 2024
  • Grocery

    the Buying and Selling of Food in America

    Ruhlman, Michael, 1963-
    PaperbackNew York : Abrams Press, 2017. — HD9321.5.R83 2017b
  • Hooked

    Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions

    Moss, Michael, 1955-
    BookNew York : Random House, [2021] — RA784.M637 2021
  • How Not to Die

    Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease

    Greger, Michael,
    BookNew York : Flatiron Books, 2015. — RA784.G7584 2015
  • How to Be a Conscious Eater

    Making Food Choices That Are Good for You, Others, and the Planet

    Egan, Sophie,
    PaperbackNew York : Workman Publishing, [2020] — GT2850.E43 2020
  • Ingredients

    the Strange Chemistry of What We Put in Us and on Us

    Zaidan, George,
    Paperback[New York] : Dutton, [2020] — TX531.Z25 2020
  • The Lost Supper

    Searching for the Future of Food in the Flavors of the Past

    Grescoe, Taras,
    BookVancouver : Greystone Books, [2023] — TX353.G74 2023
  • Modified

    GMOs and the Threat to Our Food, Our Land, Our Future

    Shetterly, Caitlin,
    BookNew York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2016] — TP248.65.F66S384 2016
  • The Omnivore's Dilemma

    a Natural History of Four Meals

    Pollan, Michael
    BookNew York : Penguin Press, 2006. — GT2850.P65 2006
  • Real Food/fake Food

    Why You Don't Know What You're Eating & What You Can Do About It

    Olmsted, Larry,
    BookChapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2016. — TX533.O46 2016
  • Real Food, Real Facts

    Processed Food and the Politics of Knowledge

    Biltekoff, Charlotte, 1970-
    PaperbackOakland, California : University of California Press, [2024] — TP370.B495 2024
  • The Secret Life of Groceries

    the Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket

    Lorr, Benjamin,
    BookNew York : Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House, [2020] — HF5469.23.U62L67 2020
  • Seed Money

    Monsanto's Past and Our Food Future

    Elmore, Bartow J.,
    BookNew York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2021] — HD9482.U64M644 2021
  • Spoon-fed

    Why Almost Everything We've Been Told About Food Is Wrong

    Spector, T. D. (Timothy David),
    PaperbackLondon : Vintage, 2022. — TX353.S74 2022