What is Food Chemistry

Question 1

What is food chemistry?

Answer 1

A systemic evaluation and understanding of water, carbs, lipids, proteins, minerals and vitamins as they undergo chemical interactions/reactions during the harvest, processing, storage and distribution of foods

Question 2

What is a food chemist?

Answer 2

1) Someone who has studied the basic chemistry of food

2) they study how plants have been harvested for food and how animals that are slaughtered for food are processed, prepared and distributed

Question 3

What is sodium nitrite used to prevent?

Answer 3

Clostridium Botulinum

Question 4

Why is food chemistry important?

Answer 4

1) In food product development because it helps modify an existing product

2) Required for quality control

3) useful to study reactions that occur in food. Desirable and undesirable

Question 5

What kind of process is microbial growth?

Answer 5

The growth of microorganisms in food is a chemical process, it occurs when an organism decomposes specific compounds

Question 6

What are the two applications of food chemistry?

Answer 6

1) apply chemistry principles to facilitate the interactions among food products with desired goals and attributes (DOES NOT REQUIRE GOVERNMENT APPROVAL)

2) explore the chemistry of individual chemical components in a food (most chemical modifications DO REQUIRE GOVERNMENT APPROVAL) Ex. Splenda