Now You Know What You Eat

Now You Know What You Eat examines familiar foods, their ingredients, and the origins of those ingredients. Pizza, honey, milk, maple syrup, vegetable soup, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, and macaroni and cheese are among the foods considered. It explains why bread rises, what makes popcorn pop, and how bees produce honeycomb. Bold, simple graphics accompany the book’s food-science information.