The Dorito Effect: The Surprising New Truth About Food and Flavor Audiobook (Free)

A lively and important argument about where the key to reversing America’s health crisis lies.

In The Dorito Effect, Mark Schatzker shows us how our approach to the nation’s number one open public health crisis has gotten it wrong. The epidemics of weight problems, heart disease, and diabetes are not linked with the overabundance of extra fat or carbs. Instead, we have been led astray by the developing divide between flavor – the preferences we crave – as well as the root nutrition. Since the late 1940s, we have been slowly leeching flavor out of the food we grow. Concurrently, we have taken great leaps ahead in technology, allowing us to create in the lab the very tastes that are being lost in the farm. Thanks to this largely invisible epidemic, seemingly healthful meals is becoming more like processed foods: highly craveable but nutritionally vacant. We’ve unknowingly interfered with a historical chemical language – flavor – that progressed to steer our nutrition, not destroy it.