How Food is Made: An illustrated guide to how everyday food is produced, Paperback

If you have ever thought, as you bite into a hot dog, "what am I really eating?" then this is for you.

We buy and eat packaged food every day, yet how these foods are created is a total mystery to almost everyone. For most, food production is an unspoken fact of life, the details of which lie locked behind factory doors. Not anymore. In this fascinating graphic book, we show you exactly how it's done.

In How Food is Made you will discover how the most common foods in your home are made, through easy to follow infographics and text that gets right to the point. How Food is Made unravels 60 common foods, using plain language and illustrations to explain how each food is made step-by-step, in an entertaining graphic book format.

How Food is Made will help you:

• make better food choices
• quickly and easily see how processed foods are manufactured
• understand what those long, scary words on food labels mean
• find out how food is made, from raw ingredient to finished product.

Featuring chocolate, bacon, coffee, beer, chips, ketchup, margarine, breakfast cereal, marshmallows, sugar, chewing gum, chicken nuggets, gummy bears and many more of your favourite foods.

An invaluable resource for educators, parents, teens... and anyone curious about food.

Author and illustrator, Ayla Marika, masterfully distils complex food science concepts and industry jargon into everyday language and eye-catching visuals. She transforms even the most brain-achingly complicated processes into something that is not only easy to understand, but also wildly entertaining. Thoroughly researched and fact-checked, her latest work 'How Food is Made' is set to become a staple in your food library for now and years to come.