This is what you just put in your mouth?
Subtitle: from eggnog to beef jerky, the surprising secrets of what's inside everyday products
By: Patrick Di Justo
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9780804139885
Subjects: Food additives; Food; Popular works; Hygiene products; Toxicology; Environmental health; Processed foods; Composition; Household supplies
Description: "Based on his popular Wired magazine column What's Inside, Patrick Di Justo takes a cold, hard ... look at the shocking, disgusting, and often dumbfounding ingredients found in everyday products, from Cool Whip and Tide Pods to Spam and Play-Doh. He also shares the madcap stories of his extensive research, including tracking down a reclusive condiment heir, partnering with a cop to get his hands on heroin, and getting tight-lipped snack-food execs to talk"--Page 4 of cover.

What do a cup of coffee and cockroach pheromone have in common? Di Justo takes a cold, hard, and incredibly funny look at the shocking, disgusting, and often dumbfounding ingredients found in everyday products, from Cool Whip and Tide Pods to Spam and Play-Doh. He schools us on product histories, label decoding, and the highfalutin chemistry concepts behind everything from Midol to Hostess fruit pies.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: This is what you put in your mouth. A.1. steak sauce ; Purina Alpo Chop House beef tenderloin flavor in gourmet gravy ; Beano ; Chocolate cherry cordials ; Cigarettes ; Coffee ; Cool Whip ; Doritos Late Night All Nighter Cheeseburger Chips ; Easy Cheese aerosol spread ; Enfamil baby formula ; Enzyte ; Hostess lemon fruit pie ; Hot Pockets pepperoni pizza ; I Can't Believe It's Not Butter ; FreshBurst Listerine ; Midol ; Orbit White gum ; PowerBar Protein Plus ; Red Bull ; Red wine ; Samuel Adams Harvest Pumpkin Ale ; Slim Jim ; Southern Comfort egg nog ; Spam with bacon ; Tap water ; Vita Coco coconut water; title: This is what you don't put in your mouth. Axe deodorant ; Colored-flame artificial logs ; Bausch & Lomb Renu contact lens cleaner solution ; CoverGirl LashBlast Luxe mascara ; Diamond Strike Anywhere matches ; April Fresh Downy fabric softener ; Febreze ; Fix-A-Flat; A flu shot ; Gasoline ; Head & Shoulders shampoo ; Heroin ; Just For Men hair color ; K-Y Yours+Mine couples lubricants ; Neutrogena Healthy Skin face lotion SPF 15 ; Noxzema ; Play-Doh ; Preparation H ; Lemon Scent Raid ; Sta-Green tree and shrub planting mix ; Tide pods ; Titleist golf balls ; Triple Paste diaper cream.