I am taking part in the April Ultimate Blog Challenge which is a daily blog post for the month of April…A post with a prompt will be issued for each day where you can go with the prompt or a post of your choosing…

The prompt today was to share a book review...For personal bloggers like me, it could be connected to the topics that I blog about…

As you know I cook a bit and rant sometimes about the food industry…haha…I thought that would elicit some comments…

I decided as my focus has shifted somewhat over the last 12 months and those of you who know me also know those food manufacturers are not high on my list of best buddies…

The book I am reviewing is a book which is a little worn around the edges and one which I read regularly or parts of it and use it as a term of reference.

Food Forensics by Mike Adams also known as The Food Ranger…

I thought long and hard and also conducted some research before I purchased this book…I was impressed that …

The Natural News Forensic Food Lab where Mr Adams did this research is ISO 17025 accredited.  That accreditation depends on international standards for procedures and accuracy, regularly verified by third-party audit.  They follow standards from the AOAC (Association of Analytical Communities), EPA, NIST and FDA.

It is a book which if you are like me you like to know exactly what is in your food and not just one of the so many names which ingredients can go under but the proper names. Some of which I remembered from my school days but many which I had forgotten especially the symbols for some of the chemicals.

There is enough room in the margins for my notes…

The first read took me a while as I kept going back for reference of which there are many…I love it and it is definitely an eye opener …It covers everything and with easy to understand explanations of topics for someone like me but also very in-depth if you so wish…

It covers breakfast cereals spices, supplements, sodas, pet foods, fast food restaurants, heavy metals in foods and much more I don’t think he has left many stones unturned…

Not an easy read by a long way, very factual but I found it a page turner the more I read the more I wanted to know…I wanted to know the hidden toxins which lurk in our food and knowing what they are and what effect they have on the human body is mind-numbing… Now you know why I dislike those sneaky conniving manufacturers of our food…It is not a glamorous read with lots of pictures, it has lots of charts and references but my kind of reading…An excellent reference Book…

For me 5 stars.

Thank you for reading 🙂 x

About Carol Taylor:

Enjoying life in The Land Of Smiles I am having so much fun researching, finding new, authentic recipes both Thai and International to share with you. New recipes gleaned from those who I have met on my travels or are just passing through and stopped for a while. I hope you enjoy them.

I love shopping at the local markets, finding fresh, natural ingredients, new strange fruits and vegetable ones I have never seen or cooked with. I am generally the only European person and attract much attention and I love to try what I am offered and when I smile and say Aroy or Saab as it is here in the north I am met with much smiling.

Some of my recipes may not be in line with traditional ingredients and methods of cooking but are recipes I know and have become to love and maybe if you dare to try you will too. You will always get more than just a recipe from me as I love to research and find out what other properties the ingredients I use contain to improve our health and wellbeing.

The environment is also something I am passionate about and there will be more on this on my blog this year

Exciting for me hence the title of my blog, Retired No One Told Me! I am having a wonderful ride and don’t want to get off, so if you wish to follow me on my adventures, then welcome! I hope you enjoy the ride also and if it encourages you to take a step into the unknown or untried, you know you want to…….Then, I will be happy!

More and more of my blogging friends have joined me on MeWe…A social media site which is fairly new and which promises much without the restrictions some other social media sites are choosing to impose on many of us…Join me if you will on  mewe.com/i/caroltaylor3 

 

Carol is a contributor to the Phuket Island Writers Anthology: https://www.amazon.com/Phuket-Island-Writers-Anthology-Stories-ebook/dp/B00RU5IYNS

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Thank you once again for reading this post I hope you all have a great week xx