Topic > Food and Eating Habits - 1612

While in "Where Does Dad's Polysorbate 60 Come From?" in Twinkie Deconstructed,” by Steve Efflinger is a discussion of food ingredients and how we are so unaware of where more than half of these ingredients come from. This story had no influence on me as I found it, but it relates to my story as well as Pollan's "We Are What We Eat." In Pollan's essay he explains how corn is in everything we eat and uses facts and quotes to get his point across just like in "Where Does Polysorbate 60 Come From?" Efflinger says, "Some ingredients, like most of those at the bottom of the list, are minerals or are so highly processed that they really qualify as chemicals rather than foods." (Efflinger 19) However, this applies to me because I am also unaware of what exactly is in the food I eat. Therefore attributable to “Food Inc.” In the film, consumers are profoundly unaware of the foods they eat, making it nearly impossible to influence the average consumer to change their eating habits without being educated. In “Nutritionism” by Michael Pollan it is argued that “we become so obsessed with nutrition that concerns about our physical health become our only motivation for eating.” (Pollan 11) Pollan is informing us that our food can take over our body just like in "We are what we eat" corn can take over the