Family & Consumer Science: 3.02 Food Science

Family & Consumer Science
Unit 3, Lesson 2: The Science of Food

Eating is something we do every day without much thought, but who would ever think that there is so much planning and care that goes into the preparation of the foods we eat and keeping us safe in the process?

Food Science incorporates and applies knowledge from biology, chemistry, nutrition and even engineering to safeguard, process, package, and distribute foods that are nutritious, wholesome, affordable, desirable and safe to eat.

What is Food Science?

What is Food Science

Multiple Choice

Is this an example of food science?

• Placing items at eye-level to increase sales.    

• Yes

• No

Multiple Choice

Is this an example of food science?

• Microwave popcorn pops into fluffy pieces.

• Yes

• No

Multiple Choice

Is this an example of food science?

• Cake mix rises when you follow directions.

• Yes

• No

Multiple Choice

Is this an example of food science?

• Choosing a location for the food label on packages.

• Yes

• No

Multiple Choice

Is this an example of food science?

• Microwave pizza goes from frozen to crispy.

• yes

• No

Multiple Choice

Is this an example of food science?

• Milk is fresh until the expiration date.

• Yes

• No

Multiple Choice

Is this an example of food science?

• The display of produce at the grocery store.

• Yes

• No

The History of Food

Yum!

Most of the advances in food science have happened in the last 100 years. Here are some key events in history leading up to how we use food today.!

Ancient Humans

The very first humans decided if a food was safe to eat by watching if other animals also ate the food. All foods were eaten raw. Humans were nomads who gathered what they could find to eat.

Multiple Choice

About 300,000 years ago, __________ were the first to use fire to cook food.

• Monkeys

• Kromagnum

• Neanderthals

• Aliens

​Fire!!

This increased the variety of foods eaten since many foods such as wheat, barley, rice, millet, rye and potatoes require cooking before they are fit for consumption.

​What did prehistoric humans eat?

​More ancient food trivia!

About 5,000 B.C., during the Mesopotamian era, meats were dried, smoked or salted for safekeeping.

About 3100 B.C., Egyptians constructed silos to preserve grain.

Food Quality

Preservation techniques impact the taste and texture of food.

Fill in the Blanks

Multiple Choice

The state of the food changes but no new substances are produced. The new food has the same properties as the old food.

• Physical Change

• Chemical Change

• Physiochemical Change

​Melting chocolate is an example of a physical change. Listen for 3 minutes...

Multiple Choice

Caramelizing sugar is an example of a chemical change.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Change in both the physical characteristics of the food and the chemical composition of the food.

• Physical Change

• Chemical Change

• Physiochemical Change

• None of these

Multiple Choice

When you roast pine nuts in the oven, they turn brown and the flavor is changed.

This is an example of...

• Physical Change

• Chemical Change

• Physiochemical Change

• No Change

Multiple Choice

An English muffin is toasted and turns slightly brown.

This is an example of a ...

• Chemical Change

• Physical Change

• Physiochemical Change

• No Change

Multiple Choice

Meringue, the stiff white peaks that egg white forms on the top of a pie or for meringue cookies, is an example of which type of change?

• Chemical

• Physical Change

• Physiochemical Change

• No Change

Multiple Choice

Peeling a kiwi fruit before you eat it is an example of what type of change?

• Physical Change

• Chemical Change

• Physiochemical Change

• No Change

Engineering New Foods is...

...using a manufacturing or processing technique to change the food.
Why?
To make the food safe to eat for someone who is lactose intolerance to an ingredient.
Example: Removing lactose from skim milk makes the milk better to drink for someone who cannot digest lactose.

Multiple Choice

People with Celiac disease (or gluten sensitive) could eat a bagel made without gluten.

• yes

• no

​Functional Foods:

Foods that offer additional health benefits that may promote better health or reduce the risk of disease.

​Genetically Altered Foods

Genetic alteration or engineering of foods is a form of biotechnology, and is one way to change the foods we eat.

​Listen to the video for at least 5 minutes.

​Please take the live session quiz for the week of Oct. 20th

Thank you for participating in the FCS ClassConnect for unit 3, Lesson 2: Food Science.