What's In Your Halloween Candy?
For the artful new book Ingredients, Dwight Eschliman photographed the mostly powdery ingredients that go into all our favorite foods. Above are the ingredients of a Snickers bar. Below, a close-up on one ingredient in particular: soy lecithin. Soy Lecithin Dwight Eschliman from Ingredients: A Visual Exploration of 75 Additives & 25 Food Products (Regan Arts, September 2015) Soy Lecithin Lecithin is ubiquitous in the natural world. At least trace amounts of it are found in almost all living cells. Once considered a waste product from soybean oil processing, it is now one of the most common emulsifiers in food processing. French scientist Maurice Gobley was the first to identify lecithin, back in 1805. He found that egg yolks are about 30 percent lecithin. Gobley named his...