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Encompasses the investigation of better ways to select, preserve, process, package, and distribute food?

Food Science

An interdisciplinary science that encompasses all aspects of the food chain and the entire nutrition system and their effects on health, the natural environment, society, and the economy?

Nutrition Ecology

Combination of the nutrients that are essential to life?

Food


Purpose of food: __________ nutrients during body's maintenance, repair, and growth.

Replace

Scientific study of raw food materials and their behavior during food preservation, product formulation, processing, packaging, storage, and ultimately food preparation?

Food Science

Scientific study of the nutrients in food including their role and balance in relation to health and disease and the process by which humans ingest, digest, absorb, and utilize food substances?

Nutrition

Complexity of food science is evidenced by the complexity of food __________.

Ingredients

When households have difficulty providing enough food for all their members due to lack of resources?

Food Insecurity

An understanding of the interconnected systems and associated relationships that sustain the web of life?

Ecological Literacy

A dynamic complex of plant, animal, and microorganism communities, as well as the nonliving environment, that interacts and functions as a unit?

Ecosystem

Benefits society obtains from ecosystems, including food and water; the regulation of floods, drought, land degradation, and disease; soil formation and nutrient cycling; and cultural, recreational, spiritual, religious, and other nonmaterial benefits?

Ecosystem Services

The Animate, interconnected components and processes of ecosystems (no matter how small or large)?

Living Systems

The root causes of ecosystem change are the increased per person consumption of _______________ and a growing ____________. This includes: increased demand for food, fiber, and water. Pollution from contaminants and waste. Eutrophication of waterways. Global trade. Climate change. Overfishing, overgrazing, and overlogging. Habitat loss and fragmentation

-Ecosystem Services


-Population

Food science is an interdisciplinary applied science which includes: Engineering, chemistry, microbiology, law, statistics, nutrition, physics, horticulture (animal science), and biochemistry. **

**

Goals of food RD: __________ and _________ food products with maximum retention of nutrients in quantities similar or exceeding the amount of those in natural state.

-Preserve


-Produce

6 classes of nutrients?

-Proteins


-Carbohydrates


-Lipids


-Vitamins


-Minerals


-Water

Organisms that have been transformed by the insertion of one or more transgenes (genes not naturally found in organism); organisms in which the genetic material (DNA) has been altered in a way that does not occur naturally?

Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)

A type of pesticide used to kill unwanted plants. Target a specific type of plant while leaving others intact. Plants can produce natural form of this in reaction to an encounter with an undesirable species or substance?

Herbicide

Using organisms or their components- such as enzymes- to make products such as wine, cheese, beer, and yogurt (as well as various nonfood products)?

Biotechnology (not same as genetically modified)

Chemical structure of food influences _______, ________, _________, and ___________ of food ingredients and products.

-Color


-Flavor


-Shelf life


-Texture

Fat soluble vitamins?

ADEK

Vitamin in which once it is stored in tissue, it remains there?

Fat Soluble Vitamins

Vitamins which more readily leave the body?

Water Soluble Vitamins

Water Soluble Vitamins?

B & C

Inorganic elements that provide no calories, but perform a functional role in numerous metabolic processes?

Minerals

Nutrients needed in large amounts?

Macronutrients

Nutrients needed in smaller amounts?

Micronutrients

__________ are not destroyed during the cooking process.

Minerals

Calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, sodium, potassium, and chloride are?

Minerals

Process of adding nutrients that were lost during processing?

Enriched

Example of Enriching: Wheat loses 5 key nutrients: which are?

-Ribolfavin


-Thiamin


-Niacin


-Iron


-Folic acid

Adding nutrients to food products that were never present in the raw ingredients?

Fortified

Examples of fortification: fortified cereals, adding vitamin ___ to milk, adding ________ to orange juice, __________ to mayonnaise for omega 3s, DHA added to milk.

-D


-Calcium


-Fish oil

Plant compounds which are shown to have beneficial health properties beyond basic nutrition?

Phytochemicals

Many phytochemicals are pigmented _________ compounds.

Plant

2 most common food additives? Why?

-Sugar


-Salt


HELP PRESERVE FOOD

Food additives: miscellaneous, preservatives, acid regulators, anti-caking agents, glazing agents. **

**

Approved substances added to food so that it becomes a component of the food product and it affects the characteristics of the product?

Food Additives

Resource for food additives is __________- everything added to food in the United States by the Food and Drug Administration.

-EAFUS

Food Additives: 1. Protect the __________ in food 2. Extend the ___________ of food 3. To improve the ___________ appeal 4. To maximize ingredient ______________ (how they play together)

-Nutrients


-Shelf life


-Sensory


-Performance

Ecological concerns impacting Food R&D: increased demand for ________, ________, and ________; ecosystem contaminants and waste, climate _________, _______-production, changes in habitat.

-Food, fiber, water


-Change


-Over

The regenerative capacity and the availability of the natural resources of the planet?

Biocapacity

The variety of life forms that make up a community, including plants, animals, fungi, and microorganisms. In recent years,the term has come to stand for the concepts and principles of conservation?

Biodiversity

Can decrease the impact of food production on the environment: Eating ______ on the food chain (plant-based protein), selectively eating _______ foods, eating _________ grown foods.

-Lower


-Local


-Organically

A commercial or industrial product or package made of at least 25% biological products, renewable agricultural materials, (including plants, animal, and marine materials), or forestry materials?

Biobased Products

__________ food waste can reduce costs associated with food production and can improve soil. Preventing food waste has far reaching benefits.

Composting

The major shift in the types of foods consumed by human populations and the resultant effect upon body composition and health?

Nutrition Transition

____________ has been cited in the creation of lifestyle imbalances that are linked to poor diet and limited physical activity. These include: the spread of technologies that limit energy expenditure, modern food processing, communication and distribution techniques that espouse "the Western diet", global expansion of the mass media, and disappearance of fresh food markets in the developing world.

Globalization

Industrialized agricultural system characterized by mechanization, crop monocultures, and the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Its emphasis is on productivity and profitability?

Conventional Agriculture

An agricultural system that is founded in the principles of ecology; sustainable agriculture is economically viable, socially conscious, and capable of maintaing high productivity?

Sustainable Agriculture

Food choices are linked to ____________. Cultural traditions related to food are being displaced by the commercial food culture. Changes in the composition of food and the types of foods consumed can affect food ____________, human health, and the natural environment.

-Globalization


-Preparation

Less impact on the environment if you eat a more _________ based diet. (balance- meat and plant)

Plant

Edible native and foraged foods can expand the palate and add valuable nutrients to the diet. Food waste in the restaurant setting can be minimized. Cooking foods shortly after they have been picked can offer superior _________.

Taste

Making food choices: Senses (______, ______, _______, and _____), _________ values (kosher foods), Psychological, __________ (comfort food), _________ (lobster vs. canned tuna).

-Smell, touch, sound, taste


-Religious


-Emotion


-Budget

Instantaneous evaluation of sensory characteristics; biased by culture, emotion, psychological preference; NOT an appropriate standard for sensory evaluation?

Personal Preference

Set aside personal preference and focus on the characteristics of the food in question; Express the objective qualities of the food without the bias of personal preference?

Sensory Evaluation

Experience of mouth and nose?

Taste

Components of taste: _________ and ________ substances and ___________.

-Volatile and nonvolatile


-Taste buds

Cellular structures that look like flower buds?

Taste Buds

Where are taste buds found?

Underside and tip of tongue, palate, and pharynx

5 Basic tastes?

-Sweet


-Salty


-Sour


-Bitter


-Savory/umami

Combination of senses of taste, odor, and mouthfeel?

Flavor (MORE COMPLEX)

Flavor: _________ accounts for 75% of flavor.

Aroma

Sensation detected by the lining of the mouth as it interacts with food?

Mouthfeel

Flavor: _______ content of foods affect flavor and mouthfeel. ________- soluble ingredients are quick to taste, but leave early. ______- soluble ingredients take longer to taste but last longer.

-Fat


-Water


-Fat

Examples of water soluble ingredients?

-Sugar


-Salt


-Soy sauce

Examples of fat soluble ingredients?

-Butters


-Oils


-Chocolate

_______: includes texture, tenderness, consistency astringency, and chemethesis?

Touch

A combination of sight, touch, and mouthfeel?

Texture

Touch: via teeth, tongue, and palate?

Texture

How easily food gives way to the pressure of the teeth?

Tenderness (meat)

Touch: Different than tenderness?

Consistency (cake batter)

Touch: "pucker" power?

Astringency

A peppermint is an example of?

Chemethesis

Touch: feel foods chemical properties; heat (hot peppers) and cooling (cucumber)?

Chemethesis

Hearing: Sizzling, popping, crackling, bubbling, pouring, hissing, crunch. ________ content affects the sound a food makes. Sound relays messages about _________, __________, and _________.

-Water


-Doneness


-Ripeness


-Texture (apple)

4 descriptive terms?

-Appearance


-Flavor


-Texture


-Mouthfeel

One of the most important tools in the kitchen: 2 different kinds of knives?

-Chef's or French knife


-Paring knife

Largest, most versatile knife. Cuts and crush foods?

Chef's or French knife



Smaller knife, 2-4" in length; delicate tasks?

Paring knife

Different sections of the blade can be used for different tasks. _______ can be used for light work, slicing mushrooms. _______ is used for most tasks. _______ is used for heavy work, chopping; more weight and thickness to this part of knife.

-Tip


-Middle


-Heel

Hold base of the knife between thumb and forefinger. Wrap remaining fingers around the handle. Curl guide hand and tuck the _________. Keep ____" between the blade and fingers.

-Thumb


-1/2"

The goal of cutting food is to produce uniform shapes and sizes because it calls for _________ cooking time. Three different types of cutting?

-Even


-Slice


-Dice


-Mince

Cuts: Slice: match sticks?

Julienne

Cuts: Slice: shredding?

Chiffonade

Cuts: Slice: disks?

Rondelles

Cuts: Slice: ovalss?

Diagonals

Cuts: Slice: meats?

Butterfly