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By Marion Nestle

March 24 2026

Announcing: Sugar Coated (September 2026)

University of California Press has just announced the forthcoming publication of my next book in September. This one is co-authored with Lisa Sutherland, a former vice president of Kellogg, currently interim president of Jacksonville University. We had a great time doing it.

From the fpublisher:

If you want to understand how the food business works, just have a look at a box of breakfast cereal. Hardly anything on supermarket shelves is bigger, bolder, or more deliberately designed. The fiercely competitive industry that brings us Cheerios, Froot Loops, and Trix sells a distinctly American dream: indulgence and health in one convenient package.

Cereal boxes chronicle our shifting national obsessions with health, ingredients, dietary advice, and American culture. They show us what sells food: cartoons for kids, athletes for men, weight loss for women. And hidden in the history of cereal package designs, we find clues to the corporate lobbying that shapes agricultural policy, health claims, and labeling regulations.

Sugar Coated unboxes the influence of cereal companies on food policy and the power of marketing, revealing, in the process, why Big Food is so good at selling profitable products regardless of their effects on health.

268 pp.6 x 9 Illus: 44 color illustrations

9780520421271$29.95|£25.00Hardcover

Sep 2026

It’s already available for pre-order:

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