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Topic 5 - Food Additives Flashcards

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1
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Why is wax important on apples?

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because it prevents the apple from drying up

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What is morpholine?

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Added to make the wax easier to apply
- In the body, morpholine combines with another naturally occurring chemical to form nitroso-morpholine
• Carcinogenic in high amounts
- But in the amounts we eat it its not dangerous

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Where are nitrates found present?

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naturally present in cabbage and form nitrosamines (carcinogenic in test animals)

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What agencies control our food?

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Canada: Food Inspection Agency (CFIA)
USA: FDA

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5
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What did the Romans use to make their wine sweeter?

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lead acetate

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What did the Romans use to make vegetables greener?

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copper salt

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What did the Romans use to extend their flour?

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“Plaster of Paris” CaSO4

- Baker used arsenic oxide when he ran out

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What do Cassava roots and lima beans contain?

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They contain naturally occurring cyanide compounds

- Must prepare food properly in order to remove cyanide

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What are Sassafra leaves

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Used as a cleansing agent to make tea

  • Sassafra leaves contain safrole which is a potential carcinogen
  • Safrole was banned from root beer
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What is the RDA for salt?

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2g/day

- Global average is 3.95g/day (nearly 2X recommended)

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What is the most widely added ingredient to food?

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Sugar, and then salt

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Is salt more prevalent in natural or prepared food?

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Prepared

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What happens when you reduce the size of the sodium crystal?

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= increase the surface area = more sodium will come in contact with tongue and you will taste it more

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What is Monosodium glutamate (MSG)?

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nasty ingredient in Lipton soup

  • Flavour enhancing property of MSG came from seaweed
  • Natural glutamine combines with sodium from the ocean to give MSG which made food taste better
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How many chemical additives do we consume per year?

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~ 1 pound per year

- Roughly 2000 chemicals, THUS amount of each chemical per day is extremely small)

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What was the 5th taste that Kikunae Ikaeda discovered?

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Umami (in addition to sour, sweet, salty, bitter)

  • MSG brings out this umami taste
  • It improves the taste of food to which it is actually added
  • Specifically, high protein food
17
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How does MSG improve the taste of our food?

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  • It increases salivation

- Makes our taste buds more sensitive

18
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What is CRS (Chinese Restaurant Syndrome) / Kwok’s Disease?

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  • After eating MSG, they suffer chest pains and start sweating (symptoms of a prelude of heart attack)
  • MSG was widely used in Chinese Oriental restaurants
19
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What is glutamic acid?

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  • The precursor of MSG
  • Form MSG in the presence of salt
  • Cheese, tomatoes, eggs, bread
20
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Explain how MSG is produced by bacteria in the lab

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Bacteria are fed with molasses which convert it to glutamic acid which is treated with sodium hydroxide to make MSG

21
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Why is MSG not responsible for allergic reactions?

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It does not involve the immune system, only ADVERSE reactions are associated with it

22
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What is kokumi?

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  • A new taste to describe fullness of food
  • Cheese, foie gras, liver, garlic, onions, milk, scallops
    • The same company that makes MSG has developed a flavour additive that gives the kokumi taste
    • Pinot Noir from the US has a Kokumi taste
23
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What fat is used in stuffed butterball turkey?

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Margarine, not butter

24
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What is more saturated than butter?

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Palm and palm oil

25
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What salt used for?

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Taste and preservatives

26
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How does salt kill micro-organisms?

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By osmosis

  • Osmosis is the movement of a solvent through a semi-permeable membrane from a region of low [solute] to high [solute]
  • Water inside bacteria (low) will flow out into solution (high) and bacteria become dehydrated and die
27
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How do cucumbers become pickles?

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Cucumbers are put in a brine solution (high salt)

28
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How can sugar be used as a preservative?

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Through osmosis

- High sugar concentration causes bacteria to die

29
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What is in regular ketchup?

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Fresh ripe tomatoes, sugar, etc…

  • NO preservatives and MSG
  • Ketchup is 30% sugar so obviously you don’t need a preservative
30
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How can smoke act as a preservative?

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• Smoke can also act as a preservative because it dehydrates the fish and also toxic chemicals in smoke prevent growth of bacteria

  • Fish can be smoked, smoked meat in MTL
  • Become red when smoked = red herring
31
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How many cases and deaths per year are caused by food poisoning?

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• In Canada, there are 6.8 million cases per year and 40 deaths
• In the US, there are 48 million cases per year and 3000 deaths per year
- Difference in numbers is because some people develop a stomach bug for 24 hours and don’t report it

32
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Why is the incidence of food poisoning is still higher than what it should be?

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  • Increased meat consumption
  • Increased lifespan (the older we get, worse immune systems)
  • Increased travelling (we bring in bugs from other countries)
  • Industrial farming (cattle grow up in crowded condition where its more likely they contract an infection)
  • Use of antibiotics in animal feed
  • In the US, 70% of antibiotics used are for animal feed
33
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What are antibiotics in animal feeds used for?

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  • Used to prevent the spread of diseases and animals will grow faster if given antibiotics
  • Important when animals are growing in crowded conditions (disease would spread very quickly)
34
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What is the concern around antibiotics in animal feeds?

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• Concern is NOT that the antibiotics will remain in the chicken or animal
- BUT instead that the bacteria that remain in the meet are resistant to the antibiotics
- Consume chicken with resistant microbes –> become sick –> take antibiotics –> DO NOT WORK
• There is a movement to ban the use of Antibiotics in cattle and chicken

35
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What is sodium phosphate?

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an ingredient in turkey which is used to retain moisture in the turkey

36
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What is STP (sodium tripolyphosphate)?

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In Kraft Dinner AND is used as a cleaning agent

  • In food, it retains moisture
  • In cleaning agent, it ties up calcium and makes water less hard
37
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What is the difference between flavour and artificial flavour?

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  • Flavour: ingredients added come from natural sources (milk or lactose component)
  • Artificial flavour: comes from synthetic sources
38
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What is artificial smoke flavour?

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  • Produced by passing smoke through a water solution where some of the chemicals are picked up (non-toxic)
  • Toxic flavours are not absorbed in the water

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