TY - BOOK ID - 147680565 TI - Critical approaches to superfoods AU - Wilk, Richard AU - McDonell, Emma PY - 2020 SN - 1350123900 1350123889 PB - London : Bloomsbury Publishing, DB - UniCat KW - Nutrition KW - Natural foods KW - Food and Social Movements KW - Anthropology of Food (Food) KW - Culture and Society (Food) KW - Food KW - Social aspects. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:147680565 AB - "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. Critical Approaches to Superfoods examines the politics and culture of superfoods. It demonstrates how studying superfoods can reveal shifting concepts of nutritional authority, the complexities of intellectual property and bioprospecting, the role marketing agencies play in the agro-industrial complex, and more. The multidisciplinary contributors draw their examples from settings as diverse as South India, Peru, and California to engage with foodstuffs that include quinoa, almonds, fish meal, Rooibos Tea, kale and açaí"-- ER -