Salt, sugar, fat : how the food giants hooked us / [Michael Moss].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

FOOD & BEVERAGE TECHNOLOGY. This is the story of how the food industry have used three essential ingredients to control much of the world's diet. In "Salt Sugar Fat" Michael Moss uncovers the truth about the food giants that dominate our supermarket shelves and reveals how the makers of processed foods have chosen, time and again, to increase consumption and profits, gambling that consumers and regulators wouldn't figure them out. With access to confidential files and memos, relentless and original reporting, and numerous sources from deep inside the industry, Michael Moss shows how these companies (such as Kraft, Pepsi, Mars and Unilever) have pushed ahead, despite their own misgivings (never aired publicly) and in spite of the meteoric rise of obesity in the western world.