Critical Approaches to Superfoods
Richard Wilk, "Critical Approaches to Superfoods"
English | ISBN: 1350123870 | 2020 | 232 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
English | ISBN: 1350123870 | 2020 | 232 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
Are superfoods just a marketing device, another label meant to attract the eye? Or do superfoods tell us a deeper story about how food and health relate in a global marketplace full of anonymous commodities?
In the past decade, superfoods have taken US and European grocery stores by storm. Novel commodities like quinoa and moringa, along with familiar products such as almonds and raw milk, are now called superfoods, promising to promote health and increase our energy. While consumers may find the magic of superfoods attractive, the international development sector now envisions superfoods acting as cures to political and economic problems like poverty and malnutrition.