Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us Hardcover - 2013

Media reviews

#1 New York Times Bestseller
 
“Moss [is] a dogged investigative reporter who neither scolds nor proselytizes. . . . Salt Sugar Fat continues Moss’s hot streak of ace reportage. . . . Salt Sugar Fat is a remarkable accomplishment.”
— New York Times
 
“An exactingly researched, deeply reported work of advocacy journalism.”
— Boston Globe
 
“You will never look at a bag of Cheetos in quite the same way. . . . Moss [is] a graceful writer and a bulldog of a reporter. . .”
— Seattle Times
 
“Moss makes the digestion of hard facts easier with a keen sense of the telling anecdote and detail. . . . The book is leavened with colour and humour. . . . The science and history can be fun; the message is anything but. . . . Salt Sugar Fat is a vital document for anyone whose ignorance in the area is proportionate to his waistline.”
— Newsday
 
“Vital reading for the discerning food consumer.”
— Wall Street Journal
 
“[An] eye-popping exposé. . . . [and] an absorbing insiders’ view of the food industry. . . . Moss’s vivid reportage remains alive to the pleasures of junk – ‘the heated fat swims over the tongue to send signals of joy to the brain’ – while shrewdly analyzing the manipulative profiteering behind them. The result is a mouth-watering, gut-wrenching look at the food we hate to love.”
— Publishers Weekly
 
“Revelatory. . . . A shocking, galvanizing manifesto against the corporations manipulating nutrition to fatten their bottom line – one of the most important books of the year.”
— Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
 
“[A] rich narrative. . . . The book’s insider access . . . is likely to keep readers (especially parents) hungry for more nuggets from inside the belly of the beast.”
— Chicago Tribune