Traditional foods, which have nourished human beings throughout the centuries, have undergone radical transformation. New technologies have been developed that make possible the use of substitute ingredients as partial or even complete replacers of traditional ones. Entirely new food products have been created which, although attractive and palatable, offer little or no nutritive value. Completely synthetic foods have been fabricated as substitutes for real ones. And this radical transformation of our foods continues, in ever more extreme fashion. This book explores in detail the reshaping of foods and raises questions about their impact on human health. - p. 3.