Hidden Sugar And The Illusion of Variety

Supermarkets are one of the hallmarks of 20th (and now 21st) century American society. Many of us alive today cannot recall a time when we or our families went to open-air markets for our shopping, or harvested food from our own land; the supermarket has become ubiquitous. It’s easy to see that our food choices today are more expansive than they would have been in 1900, and if we hadn’t been brought up to expect such a colorful range of foods and food-packaging, we would be stunned by it. So many foods from around the world, available to us in …read more