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Author Zaidan, George, author, illustrator.

Title Ingredients : the strange chemistry of what we put in us and on us / George Zaidan ; illustrated (poorly) by the author.

Publisher [New York] : Dutton, [2020]
©2020

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 Cable adult nonfiction  363.19 ZAI    AVAILABLE
 Lac Courte Oreilles adult nonfiction  363.19 ZAI    AVAILABLE
 Manitowish Waters adult nonfiction  363.19 Zai    AVAILABLE
 Superior adult nonfiction  363.19 Z13i    AVAILABLE
Descript xvi, 299 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note Nonfiction.
Includes index.
Summary "Cheese puffs. Coffee. Sunscreen. Vapes. George Zaidan reveals what will kill you, what won't, and why-explained with high-octane hilarity, hysterical hijinks, and other things that don't begin with the letter H. Ingredients offers the perspective of a chemist on the stuff we eat, drink, inhale, and smear on ourselves. Apart from the burning question of whether you should eat that Cheeto, Zaidan explores a range of topics"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents Processed food is bad for you, right? -- Plants are trying to kill you -- Microbes are trying to eat your food -- The smoking gun, or what certainty looks like -- Sunburnt to a crisp, or what less certainty looks like -- Is coffee the elixir of life or blood of the devil? -- Associations, or the grapes of math -- What's that public pool smell made of? -- You're late for a very important date -- So what do I do?
Subject Food -- Composition.
Nutrition.
Diet.
Chemicals.
ISBN/ISSN 9781524744274 (hardcover)
1524744271 (hardcover)
9781524744298 (paperback)
1524744298 (paperback)