Food Science Chapter Two

Why Study Food Science?  It is essential to know how to prepare and store food so that it won’t cause illness.  Society uses food science information to get food to those who need it around the world and to keep food supplies safe.

Personal Benefits  Protecting Your Health –Examples – –Knowing how vitamins function in your diet –Good Fats (LDL) VS. Bad Fats (HDL)  Understanding Food Safety –Careless handling can make food more harmful than healthful!

Personal Benefits  Gaining Practical Skills –Increase Your Cooking Skills  Certain food combinations produce the reactions they do….but what are they??  As your knowledge base of foods builds your confidence to try new things will increase!

Social Impacts  Healthy World Population??? –WHY SHOULD WE CARE???  Food for the world’s people  Much of the food in prosperous areas are wasted!  Better preservation and distribution methods could help get food where it si needed  As the population grows, fertile farmland is lost to housing

Public Health and Safety  Food scientists aim to make the food supply the best it can be nutritionally, as well as being safe from disease.

Effects on Family  Food science advancements benefit families –Nutrition –Convenience

Environmental Impacts  Environment Protection –Edible utensils –Less pesticides/preservatives (organic) –Creating Plants that need less water – Disney World “The Land” –Research continues into energy – cost saving technologies for processing, storing, and transporting foods –Foods can be stored without refrigeration

Sustainable Farming  Producing food by natural methods that fit with local needs and conditions

Integrated Pest Management (IPM)  Control pests with non-chemical deterrents –“Good Bugs” are placed with the crops to eat the “Bad Bugs”  Composting plant waste and rotating crops from one growing season to the next

Your Study of Food Science  The study of food science  Lab Experiments  Possibilities are endless!!!