If you enjoy food trivia, you'll love this book. The book presents the complex food science in fairly down-to-earth language, but you'll need more than a passing knowledge of organic chemistry to get the most out of this book. Here are a couple of the most interesting facts that I learned: raw kidney beans are surprisingly poisonous; the popular myth that carrots improve your eyesight came from a British disinformation campaign during World War II to disguise the development of radar systems.