Are These Chips Too Delicious

Choose the one chip you like the most from the list provided.

• Doritos (any flavor)

• Lays (any flavor)

• Cheetos (any flavor)

• Takis (any flavor)

• None of these

1. What are flavorists?

• store clerks who help sell flavorful food

• managers who run snack food companies

• scientists who create different flavors for food

• experts who research health problems related to food

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2. What first led to a need for flavorists?

• Companies began creating processed food.

• Companies learned that snack food created health problems.

• Scientists learned that taste buds sense five flavors.

• Scientists learned which flavors people like.

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3. Which sentence best supports the answer to the last question? (What first led to a need for a flavorist?)

• “Today, nearly 60 percent of the foods we eat are processed.”

• “Our power to sense flavors is a survival tool.”

• “The goal of the first flavorists was to make processed foods taste even halfway as good as fresh.”

• “. . . your tongue is pretty lost without your nose.”

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Both articles describe how snack foods are

• loud and annoying

• loud and delicious

• harmful and expensive

• made to be hard to resist

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What do food companies do to create the perfect crunchiness?

• They’ve figured out exactly how much tooth pressure it should

  take to crush a chip.

• They’ve designed the bag to keep chips crispy for as long as

  possible.

• They research and experiment to create the perfect crunchiness.

• All of the above.

What percentage of the food we eat, on average, is processed?

• 60%

• 100%

• 5%

• 40%

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These scientists are called flavorists. They work to make food taste great. They excel at concocting flavors you will love, from a lipsmacking berry for a sports drink to a mouthwatering chili-cheese coating for a pretzel.

• creating by mixing different things together

• want very badly

• containing substances that help you grow and be healthy

• able to be eaten safely

• having a strong, pleasant and sometimes spicy flavor

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But processed food changed all that. Food that has been processed has been frozen, canned, or treated with chemicals called preservatives.

• chemicals used to keep food from going bad

• the condition of being very overweight

• having a strong, sharp taste or smell

• not natural, created artificially

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It can take years to perfect a new taste. A successful flavor—a tangy citrus for gum, a zesty spice for chips—can earn millions of dollars. No wonder flavor companies guard their formulas with such care.

• chemicals used to keep food from going bad

• the condition of being very overweight

• having a strong, sharp taste or smell

• not natural, created artificially

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