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Sugar Coated: Unboxing the Hidden Forces Shaping America's Favorite Breakfast Food Volume 89

Sugar Coated: Unboxing the Hidden Forces Shaping America's Favorite Breakfast Food Volume 89 - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:Marion Nestle, Lisa SutherlandSeries:California Studies in Food and CultureTheme:Topical/Health & FitnessPublish date:9/8/2026Pages:304
Languages:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520421271ISBN-10:0520421272UPC:9780520421271Book Category:Social Science, Political Science, CookingBook Subcategory:Agriculture & Food, Public Policy, Essays & NarrativesBook Topic:Agriculture & Food PolicySize:9.00 x 5.90 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.622Product ID:SCAJANHPZR

World-renowned food politics expert Marion Nestle joins forces with former cereal executive Lisa Sutherland to examine what cereal boxes reveal about American culture and food politics.

If you want to understand how the food business works, just have a look at a box of breakfast cereal. Hardly anything on supermarket shelves is bigger, bolder, or more deliberately designed. The fiercely competitive industry that brings us Cheerios, Froot Loops, and Trix sells a distinctly American dream: indulgence and health in one convenient package.

Cereal boxes chronicle our shifting national obsessions with health, ingredients, dietary advice, and American culture. They show us what sells food: cartoons for kids, athletes for men, weight loss for women. And hidden in the history of cereal package designs, we find clues to the corporate lobbying that shapes agricultural policy, health claims, and labeling regulations.

Sugar Coated unboxes the influence of cereal companies on food policy and the power of marketing, revealing, in the process, why Big Food is so good at selling profitable products regardless of their effects on health.

Languages:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520421271ISBN-10:0520421272UPC:9780520421271Book Category:Social Science, Political Science, CookingBook Subcategory:Agriculture & Food, Public Policy, Essays & NarrativesBook Topic:Agriculture & Food PolicySize:9.00 x 5.90 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.622Product ID:SCAJANHPZR

Marion Nestle is the Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, Emerita, at New York University and author of many books about the politics of food, nutrition, health, and the environment.

Lisa Sutherland is Interim President at Jacksonville University and former Vice President of Nutrition at Kellogg Company.


Publisher: University of California Press

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