Mel Weinstein - Mel Weinstein - What Are You REALLY Eating?! Fast Food Secret Ingredients Revealed

For episode show notes and resources, visit: https://www.plantstrongpodcast.com/bl... Several months ago, a book came across my desk with a title that I just couldn’t ignore. It’s called, Fast Food Ingredients Revealed - What ARE You Eating? We know fast food is, for the most part, crap. But, what I didn’t realize is just how bad some of it really is… we’re talking preservatives, coloring agents, additives, and sweeteners made with actual chemical warfare agents, just to name a few of the things that should scare all of us right out of the drive-thru line. Not surprisingly, the food industry doesn’t want us to know what’s really in that box of fried chicken or that juicy burger (because it goes well beyond inhumanely raised animals), but luckily author Mel Weinstein does know what’s in this food because he spent decades studying it as a food chemist. Mel worked as an analytical chemist for over 20 years in a research center for a multinational food ingredients company and studied food science at the graduate level. He also taught chemistry at the college level for 10 years, so it has been his passion for decades to study industrial foods and explore the purpose of additives and their impact on health. Well, it’s no surprise that the long-term impacts are not good, so it’s his hope to educate people on what’s really inside that food so that you can make more informed choices on what you put in your body.