---
product_id: 103279613
title: "Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us"
price: "€ 14.25"
currency: EUR
in_stock: false
reviews_count: 9
url: https://www.desertcart.ie/products/103279613-salt-sugar-fat-how-the-food-giants-hooked-us
store_origin: IE
region: Ireland
---

# Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us

**Price:** € 14.25
**Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
- **How much does it cost?** € 14.25 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Currently out of stock
- **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.ie](https://www.desertcart.ie/products/103279613-salt-sugar-fat-how-the-food-giants-hooked-us)

## Best For

- Customers looking for quality international products

## Why This Product

- Free international shipping included
- Worldwide delivery with tracking
- 15-day hassle-free returns

## Description

Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us - Kindle edition by Moss, Michael. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us.

Review: Great resource - This book, Salt, Sugar, Fat, by Michael Moss is a great resource. Loads of information and a huge motivator to eat better and take charge of your own well being, mental, internal and overall health. What a wonderful, well researched, informative book, that's easy to understand. So worth reading and implementing into your life.
Review: We were duped. I highly recommend this book. - This book is jam packed with real life conspiracies and facts about the biggest market manipulators in history. I have really enjoyed reading this book as the author is eloquent and keeps heaps of information light and quick to read. It doesn't bog you down while reading and it was a real page turner for me. I have become concerned with my health over the past 5 years, since I got married, and my overall diet went from lentils and brown rice day in, day out, to cardboard boxes, plastic packaging, fast food, restaurants, take out, microwaves, lunch meats, cheese galore, cookies, candy bars, etc. etc. After being in and out of over 7 different specialists' offices and surgical suites in the years since this S.A.D. under-haul with various severe ailments from gastrointestinal to gynecological, I have began taking back control of my health. This book has been somewhat of a nail in the coffin in those regards. Basically, I learned to stop feeding myself lies. After reading this book, I can see blatant lies and misleading claims all throughout the grocery store. Meaning advertising on signs and boxes - all bright and colorful to lure you and your children with willynilly health claims based on a minute shred of evidence from a biased Nabisco or General Mills 'investigation.' etc. "Contains real fruit juice" means nothing. "100% natural" is meaningless and any person can put that on ANY product whether it's true or not. Stop giving your kids Capri Sun and sweetened 'fruit juices.' You owe it to them to educate yourself so they have a shot at a long and healthy life without being shot in the foot by their parents during their formative years. Really. Take some responsibility. Don't even get me started on Lunchables! One of the downfalls of our modern day society. "It's like I'm sending my kid to school with a present so he knows I love him! Tee Hee!" Yeah, well enjoy your child having plaque in his arteries by age ten. I digress. Keep this in mind the next time you go shopping: Lead paint tastes sweet, but that doesn't mean you should eat it!! I bet a lot of people would be surprised to know that Betty Crocker is a figment of an ad execs imagination. Not real, not in the least. Don't fall for her lies about Crisco and making life easier by NOT cooking dinner and having more TV time in the evenings. This is how we went off the rails, and the U.S. government was a huge promoter of that. Nearly everyone knows the U.S. is in cahoots with the sugar industry, the beef industry, the dairy industry, and so on and so forth. Essentially, anything that is bad or unnecessary for us is shoved in our faces by the DOA (Eat more beef and cheese!), by the huge conglomerates themselves, and, as another surprising example, by Philip Morris; a tobacco company who actually owns several of the biggest "food" production companies around. Quick - what's the overall biggest contributor of saturated fat in the American diet? Cheese! And then Beef! Whoo hoo! Oh, er...wait....heart disease is our nation's #1 killer.... and the government wants us to eat more.. cheese? Oy. Anyway - Great book. I highly recommend to anyone without a clue. It might clear some things up. I apologize for being snarky. It's just that.. you know. Insurance rates. Crowded hospitals. Less room in your airplane seat when sitting next to someone due to size. Others' actions impact everyone else and no one considers their fellow-person anymore. Sigh.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN  | B00985E3UG |
| Accessibility  | Learn more |
| Best Sellers Rank | #134,243 in Kindle Store ( See Top 100 in Kindle Store ) #104 in Nutrition (Kindle Store) #648 in Other Diet Books #992 in Business & Investing (Kindle Store) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars (3,459) |
| Edition  | 1st |
| Enhanced typesetting  | Enabled |
| File size  | 3.0 MB |
| ISBN-13  | 978-0679604778 |
| Language  | English |
| Page Flip  | Enabled |
| Print length  | 507 pages |
| Publication date  | February 26, 2013 |
| Publisher  | Random House |
| Screen Reader  | Supported |
| Word Wise  | Enabled |
| X-Ray  | Enabled |

## Images

![Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81f95r635rL.jpg)

## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great resource
*by J***N on October 27, 2025*

This book, Salt, Sugar, Fat, by Michael Moss is a great resource. Loads of information and a huge motivator to eat better and take charge of your own well being, mental, internal and overall health. What a wonderful, well researched, informative book, that's easy to understand. So worth reading and implementing into your life.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ We were duped. I highly recommend this book.
*by I***. on March 11, 2016*

This book is jam packed with real life conspiracies and facts about the biggest market manipulators in history. I have really enjoyed reading this book as the author is eloquent and keeps heaps of information light and quick to read. It doesn't bog you down while reading and it was a real page turner for me. I have become concerned with my health over the past 5 years, since I got married, and my overall diet went from lentils and brown rice day in, day out, to cardboard boxes, plastic packaging, fast food, restaurants, take out, microwaves, lunch meats, cheese galore, cookies, candy bars, etc. etc. After being in and out of over 7 different specialists' offices and surgical suites in the years since this S.A.D. under-haul with various severe ailments from gastrointestinal to gynecological, I have began taking back control of my health. This book has been somewhat of a nail in the coffin in those regards. Basically, I learned to stop feeding myself lies. After reading this book, I can see blatant lies and misleading claims all throughout the grocery store. Meaning advertising on signs and boxes - all bright and colorful to lure you and your children with willynilly health claims based on a minute shred of evidence from a biased Nabisco or General Mills 'investigation.' etc. "Contains real fruit juice" means nothing. "100% natural" is meaningless and any person can put that on ANY product whether it's true or not. Stop giving your kids Capri Sun and sweetened 'fruit juices.' You owe it to them to educate yourself so they have a shot at a long and healthy life without being shot in the foot by their parents during their formative years. Really. Take some responsibility. Don't even get me started on Lunchables! One of the downfalls of our modern day society. "It's like I'm sending my kid to school with a present so he knows I love him! Tee Hee!" Yeah, well enjoy your child having plaque in his arteries by age ten. I digress. Keep this in mind the next time you go shopping: Lead paint tastes sweet, but that doesn't mean you should eat it!! I bet a lot of people would be surprised to know that Betty Crocker is a figment of an ad execs imagination. Not real, not in the least. Don't fall for her lies about Crisco and making life easier by NOT cooking dinner and having more TV time in the evenings. This is how we went off the rails, and the U.S. government was a huge promoter of that. Nearly everyone knows the U.S. is in cahoots with the sugar industry, the beef industry, the dairy industry, and so on and so forth. Essentially, anything that is bad or unnecessary for us is shoved in our faces by the DOA (Eat more beef and cheese!), by the huge conglomerates themselves, and, as another surprising example, by Philip Morris; a tobacco company who actually owns several of the biggest "food" production companies around. Quick - what's the overall biggest contributor of saturated fat in the American diet? Cheese! And then Beef! Whoo hoo! Oh, er...wait....heart disease is our nation's #1 killer.... and the government wants us to eat more.. cheese? Oy. Anyway - Great book. I highly recommend to anyone without a clue. It might clear some things up. I apologize for being snarky. It's just that.. you know. Insurance rates. Crowded hospitals. Less room in your airplane seat when sitting next to someone due to size. Others' actions impact everyone else and no one considers their fellow-person anymore. Sigh.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Filling in the missing blanks in this otherwise superb book
*by K***D on March 25, 2013*

Salt Sugar Fat is a commendably captivating and detailed book that is a testament to its author's journalistic brilliance, but there are some glaring omissions I will discuss below along with disagreements on some of his fundamental conclusions. Let me get this straight: we cannot afford healthy, tasty convenience foods, yet we CAN afford cardiac bypass surgery, gastric bypass surgery, endless doctor visits and pricey prescription drugs for diabetes, hypertension, cancer, arthritis, and the many other diseases and conditions that often result from crummy diets. DOES. NOT. COMPUTE. I can't help but wonder if the food giants didn't pull the wool over the eyes of Michael Moss when they fed him versions of their products with less sugar, salt, or fat to illustrate their supposed need. He found them noxiously unpalatable, calling them "metallic" and "bitter," not just bland, so repulsive it caused him to gag (page 350). That's difficult to swallow because I've made countless healthy-but-yummy treats that weren't the slightest bit metallic, bitter, or devoid of flavor. Thus I wonder: did those food companies trick him using the method nutritionist Adelle Davis used to convince her kids that soft drinks taste terrible? She surreptitiously dumped out the factory soda and filled bottles with nasty-tasting ingredients. Did the food giants give Moss special versions not just lacking their usual levels of sugar, salt, and fat, but also with something yucky, too? I'm tempted to say no, thinking they couldn't possibly be that unethical, but they want us to believe they must use high levels of sugar, salt, and fat to make products that can compete with other junky foods. They must have realized that Moss was targeting sugar, salt, and fat, so they had an obvious motive to persuade him they need toxic amounts of those things to stay in business and make a profit, which is their #1 goal. Hmm, if the food giants were so ethical, consider this: Their executives typically shun their products, but they're good enough for you and your family? This is more than a class issue, as Moss suggests in the book; it is unconscionable and premeditated. Moss seems to too readily accept the fact that our craving for such junk legitimizes its sale. I agree to some extend on grounds of freedom, but an essential element of fairness is lacking: informed consent. Most people don't realize how they are decimating their health, appearance, and mood by consuming such products filled with ingredients not fully disclosed and often deliberately camouflaged by giving them deceptively innocuous or even healthy-sounding names. I've called manufacturers to specifically inquire about ingredients and found that even they don't always know what is in their products, and even if they did, they wouldn't reveal it, citing paranoid fears that I might be a potential competitor. Ridiculous. Any company rich enough to internationally manufacture and distribute food can afford to reverse engineer competitive products to duplicate or even surpass them. Years ago in one of my books (it is no longer available so I posted the relevant excerpt online), I detailed my conversation with Quaker Oats when I called to inquire if one of their flavored oatmeal products contained a spice that caused a life-threatening reaction in a patient. Their rep and her supervisor said they wouldn't tell me and couldn't tell me because even they didn't know every ingredient in their products! Their taste came from a secret concoction purchased from a food flavoring company -- that's one of the dirty little secrets of the food industry that Moss omitted: secretive food flavoring companies fill our bodies with unknown chemicals that likely haven't been tested and approved as safe by the FDA (as if their blessing is sufficient reassurance). Those chemicals help send our appetites into overdrive. I can make goodies loaded with sugar, salt, and fat and stop eating them, but some commercial products are so addictive that resistance is futile. Don't you have a right to know what you're putting in your body? And your children's bodies? The happy packaging of those products doesn't accurately represent the reality of what's often inside: quasi-food that can prematurely age you inside and out, sully your mood, and put you in the grave years or even decades too soon. And, of course, make it almost impossible to stop eating. Hence the mushrooming prevalence of obesity. Moss did not adequately dispute the conclusions of supposed experts who opine that junk food isn't addictive. We routinely ingest junk we'd never give our pets. When intelligent, informed, and concerned people (such as Dr. David Kessler, former FDA Commissioner) cannot resist food that damages their health, lives, and even our national economy, I'd call that an addiction. Moss painted a damning picture of the processed food industry, for which he deserves another Pulitzer Prize, but his indictment of our food would have been more complete by also targeting restaurant food that is frequently so brimming with salt, sugar, fat (including dangerously reheated oils) and chemicals galore that it makes most processed food seem downright healthy. The modus operandi of the restaurant industry is similar to that of processed food manufacturers: combining cheap and unhealthy ingredients to make stuff you can't resist. Collectively, their Big Lie is that viable alternatives are not available. Utter hogwash. Without any dressing, I can make a salad bursting with flavor and nutrition, with no added sugar, salt, fat, or chemicals. I've never seen anything like it in any restaurant. Restaurants and processed food companies are tinkering with our food but evidently care more about their profits than their customers because their soup of chemicals, along with loads of sugar, salt, and fat, are adversely affecting our bodies and minds. They get away with this because most people haven't connected their diet to how they feel, sleep, perform, and appear. I'm more attuned to this than many others, but it took me years to make the connection. Why? I was eating processed food every day, so I didn't see enough day-to-day variation to quickly realize how that stuff (little of which was obvious junk) was seriously disrupting my sleep and hence mood. Contrast my writings from that period (still posted online) to what I write today, and there's a world of difference, as if they came from different people -- and they did, because going without restful sleep for years on end is bound to negatively affect behavior. I later serendipitously discovered some natural, healthy ways to boost mood and creativity into the stratosphere, along with empathy. That's quite a change from my Mr. Scrooge years. Many folks are too tolerant, thinking of things as toxic only if they result in immediate and obvious harm or death. Processed food companies and restaurants have exploited this leniency to feed us junk that undoubtedly is toxic and even deadly. For example, the Center for Science in the Public Interest published "Salt: The Forgotten Killer ... and FDA's Failure to Protect the Public's Health" which said that "reducing sodium consumption by half would save an estimated 150,000 lives per year [and ...] reduce medical care and other costs by roughly $1.5 trillion over 20 years." Think about it: sodium is killing as many people per week as terrorists did on 9-11. The United States spent more than it can afford fighting terrorism (see Time magazine's "The $5 Trillion War on Terror"), yet we look the other way when processed food companies and restaurants rack up a death toll that makes terrorists seem like amateurs? However, there is a glimmer of hope. As Moss repeatedly mentioned, some Big Food executives eventually realized that what they did was wrong and tried to make their products less harmful, but consumers voting with their taste buds and wallets generally vetoed those changes. So with folks virtually addicted to yummy food, the billion-dollar question is: Can it be tasty, healthy, and affordable? The answer is yes, but how to achieve that isn't immediately obvious to the processed food companies. They are obsessed with market share and profits but are overlooking the best way to achieve their objectives while doing the right thing for their customers.

---

## Why Shop on Desertcart?

- 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016
- 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories
- 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price
- 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members)
- 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection
- ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews

**Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.ie/products/103279613-salt-sugar-fat-how-the-food-giants-hooked-us](https://www.desertcart.ie/products/103279613-salt-sugar-fat-how-the-food-giants-hooked-us)

---

*Product available on Desertcart Ireland*
*Store origin: IE*
*Last updated: 2026-02-16*