Gwyneth Paltrow’s second cookbook, “It’s All Good,” which was released last week, is taking heat for being an elitist farm-to-table guide sprinkled with duck eggs and $25-a-jar Manuka honey. At best it makes it seem like healthy eating is strictly for the wealthy; at worst, it’s quack science for attempting to export Paltrow’s wacky elimination diet (no bell peppers, eggplant or corn? Huh?) to a populace that’s improperly nourished and financially struggling.

Motivated by migraines and panic attacks brought on by what she believes is stress and French fries, Paltrow undergoes a number of food sensitivity tests, which uncover “a thyroid problem, anemia, vitamin D deficiency, a congested liver, hormones that were ‘off,’ and ‘inflammation’ in her system,” writes Julia Belluz at Science-ish. But she brings her young children, 7 and 8, to get tested for food sensitivities, too, and finds they are intolerant of gluten, dairy, and chickens’ eggs, among many other things.

Belluz describes the decision to involve her kids in her elimination madness as “questionable bordering on quackish.” One critic wrote that it takes “laughable Hollywood neuroticism about eating to the next level.” Another wrote that “It’s All Good” reads like “the manifesto to some sort of creepy healthy-girl sorority with members who use beet juice rather than permanent marker to circle the ‘problem areas’ on each other’s bodies.” Eater said the book is “drenched in a chatty faux-populism that could only come from a rich person fearlessly boasting about her life of privilege. Paltrow casually writes that she has a surfeit of apples from the trees on her $5.4 million five-bedroom Hamptons summer home.” Her suggested diet, Yahoo! Shine calculates, would cost $300 a day, a figure obviously out of reach for the vast majority of Americans.

Paltrow has been accused of faux populism since she started her newsletter, Goop, in 2008, with the tagline “nourish the inner aspect,” which apparently includes buying white T-shirts for $90 apiece. But her new book “risks complicating and confusing diet-related matters by suggesting expensive testing and abstinence from most every food group are the way forward for everyone,” says Belluz.

“That’s not all good, Gwyneth.”