A Rainbow Palate – How Chemical Dyes Changed the West`s Relationship with Food - Carolyn Cobbold

Shows how the widespread use of food dyes influenced understanding of food, science, and technology, as well as trust in science. We live in a world saturated by chemicals—our food, our clothes, and even our bodies play host to hundreds of synthetic chemicals that did not exist before the nineteenth century. By the 1900s, a wave of bright coal tar dyes had begun to transform the Western world. Originally intended for textiles, the new dyes soon permeated daily life in unexpected ways, and by the... Zobrazit více