What to Eat Now, Marion Nestle
What to Eat Now, Marion Nestle
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What to Eat Now
The Indispensable Guide to Good Food, How to Find It, and Why It Matters

Author: Marion Nestle

Narrator: Lisa Larsen

Unabridged: 27 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/25/2025


Synopsis

What to Eat Now is a clear-eyed, no-nonsense guide to the most important food questions on our plate today. How do we make informed dietary choices for ourselves, our families, and our communities?

In the twenty years since Marion Nestle's groundbreaking What to Eat first came out, food has undergone a radical change. The emergence of techno foods, the growth of corporate organics, and a surge of interest in food-delivery services reignited by the pandemic are just a few of the things that have altered how we think about how we eat.

Misinformation, disinformation, and corporate misdirection play a crucial and hard-to-see role in how the average shopper thinks about and chooses food.

In an aisle-by-aisle guide, Nestle takes us through the American supermarket. With persistence, wit, and common sense, she establishes the basics of good nutrition, food safety, and ethical and sustainable eating, and gives listeners a close-up look at the web of interests that food has to navigate before it gets to your shopping basket.

Above all else, What to Eat Now is a defense of real food and of the value of eating deliciously, mindfully, and responsibly.

About Marion Nestle

Marion Nestle is Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, emerita, at New York University, and Visiting Professor of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell. She has a PhD in molecular biology and an MPH in public health nutrition from UC Berkeley. She lives in New York City.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Carlie on August 05, 2025

Thank you NetGalley for this ebook in exchange for an honest review. Starts with an overview on how supermarket chains make a profit, which was expected yet still surprising. Then we move on to how to eat and what to eat (ultra processed vs real food). Learning to read food labels, navigating the accu......more

Goodreads review by Cherryl on June 20, 2025

** Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing a digital ARC of this book in exchange for my honest review ** What to Eat Now by Marion Nestle is an insightful guide that tackles the ever-evolving landscape of food choices in America. As someone who tries to make informed decisions about w......more

Goodreads review by Alicia on September 22, 2025

This is an excellent, in depth look at American food and the companies that produce it. It’s extremely thorough and walks you through everything from cereals to bottled water to baby food. Nestle is an expert in her field and has been for years, but at times her age really showed in this book. She t......more

Goodreads review by Caroline on May 24, 2025

In What To Eat Now, Marion Nestle gives an 'aisle by aisle' guide of the food in supermarkets. She goes into detail about nutrition and health, as well as food politics and marketing, on foods and drinks ranging from organic vegetables to meat, bottled water and soft drinks. This feels like a very c......more

Goodreads review by Maude on October 21, 2025

This was fascinating, although a pretty long and arduous read. This book covers everything, from PFASs in your bottled water to antibiotics in your grocery store-bought ground meats, and includes a thorough list of references at the end to back up any and all claims made by the author. A must-read f......more