Midterm Chapter 1-3 Flashcards
What is the definition of food?
Any substance, which is intended for human consumption, but does not include cosmetics or tobacco, substances used only as drugs.
What is food loss?
When food is lost in the supply chain
What is food waste?
Discarding food
What is the rising use of corn?
Biofuels
What is the definition of health?
The complete physical mental and social well being
What is the leading cause of death?
Heart Disease
What are the biggest contributors to cancer?
Smoking, alcohol, and high BMI
What is BMI?
A person’s weight in kg divided by the square height in meters.
75% of our health care dollars go to treat _______.
Chronic diseases
What does NPS stand for?
National prevention strategy
What does NPS aim to guide our nation in?
the most effective and achievable means for improving health and well-being.
What are two things that can be done to promote healthy eating?
Improve nutritional quality and enhance food safety
What is quality?
The degree to which a set of inherent characteristics of an object fulfills requirements.
What is the definition of food safety?
Ensure that food will not cause harm to the consumer when it is prepared and eaten according to its intended use.
A moldy apple is an example of
Food safety
Moisture migration of an apple is an example of
Food quality
True or False. Food safety is a part of food quality.
True
What is the purpose of food fraud?
Economic gain
Who is responsible for food safety and quality?
Food industry sectors, consumers, and government
How do you define equilibrium states?
A reversible path in which all connecting intermediate states are equilibrium states
The critical point is where vapor and liquid are ______________.
Indistinguishable
Triple point is where ice, water, and vapor coexist in ____________________.
Thermodynamic equilibrium
Critical pressure
4.58 mm Hg
What is the water activity of fruits, veggies, meat, fish and milk?
0.95
Wet basis
x grams of water/100 g of food
Dry basis
x grams of water/100 g solids
Ross equation
A reasonable estimation for multicomponent solutions over the intermediate and high water activity ranges.
What does storage stability measure?
It measures how long food products retain optimal quality after production
What are protein hydrolysates?
the mixture of polypeptides, oligopeptides, and amino acids that are produced from various animal and plant protein sources using hydrolysis or fermentation.
What are the major functions of protein hydrolysates in foods?
In vitro food quality and In vivo nutritional quality
When the water activity is higher than 0.6, the higher the degree of hydrolysis, the greater the ___________ in the protein hydrolysates such as whey, egg white, mussel, and fish.
water holding capacity
True or False. Global protein hydrolysates market increased ~74% between 2016 and 2023.
True
What are the sources of high-concentrate proteins?
Whey and Milk
Hydrolysates segment split contain what?
Hypoallergenic infant, clinical Nutrition, and bodybuilding
What is a major hardening problem of commercial HPNB?
Bar hardening
True or False. No single causative mechanism should be responsible for bar hardening.
True
What are four possible mechanisms?
Moisture migration, phase separation, disulfide-induced protein aggregation, Maillard-induced protein polymerization
What is a protein aggregate?
Any self-associated state of a protein that is effectively irreversible under the conditions it forms and often but not always, is also a state in which the biological activity of the consistent proteins is compromised.
How can you classify protein aggregates?
Soluble, insoluble, native proteins, unfolded proteins, hydrolyzed proteins
A general term that is used to describe a complex sequence of chemical changes that result from the interactions of lipids with oxygen.
Lipid Oxidation
The formation of free radicals
intiation
What is a free radical?
molecules or atoms that have unpaired electrons
The free radical chain reactions
Propagation
The formation of non-radical products
Termination
The overall mechanism of lipid oxidation consists of ________ phases.
Three
A chemical reaction between reducing sugars and a primary amino group.
Non-enzymatic browning
What is an example of non-enzymatic browning reaction?
Maillard browning reaction
What is a reducing sugar?
Any sugar that contains a free carbonyl group
True or False. All monosaccharides are reducing sugars.
True
What are two disaccharides that are reducing sugars?
Lactose and maltose
What is not a reducing sugar?
Sucrose
What are the 3 stages of the Maillard reaction scheme?
Initial, intermediate, and final
What interactions affect food stability?
Hydrophobic and disulfide interactions
What is the only covalent side chain cross-link found in proteins?
Disulfide
What effect does moisture content have on protein denaturation?
The higher the moisture content the lower the denaturation temperature
Who said “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food”?
Hippocrates
Food-based solutions to health and wellness would…..
Create a healthier citizenry
Reduce the incidence of chronic diseases
Decrease medical costs
Improve the quality of life
Create a healthier
Citizenry
Reduce the incidence of
chronic disease
decrease the medical
costs
improve the ________ of life
quality
What is a functional food?
Food and food components that provide a health benefit beyond basic nutrition.
What is foodborne illness?
An illness transmitted to humans by food
What is food safety?
Assurance that food will not cause harm to the consumer when it is prepared and/or eaten according to its intended use.