Over the years, the perception of food additives has been bedevilled by a lack of understanding that nutrition is a chemical process.

In the Mix brings out the chemistry in familiar culinary tasks such as cake-making and shows how the use of additives is rooted in such processes as making sauces, jam, bread and wine.

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