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What is in food?
How can chemistry be used to understand food and cooking?
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Apples react with oxygen and turn brown when they are exposed to the air.
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When eggs are cooked they become firmer. This is because cooking eggs changes the shape of the amino acid chains. This is called denaturing.
Changing the shape of the protein also changes its properties. The protein becomes easier to digest and more useful to the cells of the human body. Meat is also made up of amino acids and reacts to cooking in a similar way.
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Milk, fruit, vegetables, meat, soups and sauces can all be dehydrated to stop them from spoiling.
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Types of additives
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What is an emulsion?
Oils and water are insoluble in each other and do not naturally mix. These liquids are immiscible. Adding oil to water in a particular way forms an emulsion.
Fine droplets of oil become dispersed through out the water, This give the emulsion a thick and creamy texture.
Milk, salad dressings and paint are all examples of emulsions. Salad dressings often have to be shaken before use because the ingredients have separated. What could be used to prevent the ingredients separating?
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Making an emulsion
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Uses of additives
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Using additives
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artificial man-made and not found in nature. Food labelled as containing no artificial additives may contain synthetically produced natural identical additives.
Some additives that are banned in the UK are used abroad. How can food be tested to make sure it does not contain these additives?
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Using chromatography
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What are the differences between fats? Saturated fats contain no carbon-to-carbon double bonds. The straight fatty acids chains pack closely together. Unsaturated fats contain at least one carbon-to-carbon double bond. This bends the fatty acid chains and they cannot pack closely together.
Saturated fats are less healthy than unsaturated fats because the dense packing makes them harder for the body to digest.
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Although bread comes in many forms it is made from three main ingredients: water, grains and leavener (also called raising agents).
Leaveners are used to make bread and cakes rise. Baking powder and yeast are commonly used raising agents.
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water
2NaHCO3
Na2CO3
CO2
+ H2O
This is a thermal decomposition reaction. Other hydrogencarbonates and carbonates react to heat in this way.
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Adding yeast to sugars under anaerobic (without oxygen) conditions produces alcohol and carbon dioxide. This is called fermentation. sugar solution
C6H12O6
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yeast
alcohol 2C2H5OH
+ +
carbon dioxide
2CO2
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Microbes and fungus can form on food when it is stored. Mould on nuts can produce cancer-causing aflatoxins.
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Food safety
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denature A change in the physical shape of proteins. emulsifier Additive used to stop the ingredients in an
emulsion separating.
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Glossary (2/3) essential fatty acid A type of fat that is required by the
body but that it cannot produce.
flavouring An additive used to improve the taste of food. monounsaturated Fats containing one carbon to
carbon double bond. Usually liquid at room temperature.
polyunsaturated Fats containing two or more carbonto-carbon double bonds. Usually a liquid at room temperature.
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Anagrams
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Multiple-choice quiz
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