Lipids
Vitamins
Solutions
Odds and Ends
Dyes and additives
GMO and Molecular Gastronomy
100
Lipids help with the absorption of these types of vitamins.
What are fat-soluble vitamins A,D,E,K
100
This vitamin is synthesized in the skin when exposed to sunlight.
What is Vitamin D
100
This is the substance that dissolves in a solution.
What is the solute?
100
What food central element has four valence electrons?
What is Carbon
100
This colorful candy is often used in lab experiments to study dye absorbance.
Skittles or M&M's
100
This fruit was one of the first GMO crops approved for sale, engineered to resist browning.
What is the Arctic apple?
200
How are triglycerides formed?
Through dehydration synthesis and the loss of water, H2O
200
This is the disease associated with Vitamin D deficiency.
What is rickets
200
This term describes a solution that contains more solute than can usually dissolve at a given temperature.
What is a supersaturated solution?
200
Acids can aid in preventing browning of fruit by denaturing the enzyme that causes browning.
What is the functional group for all acids?
Carboxyl group
200
This natural dye comes from crushed insects and is used in yogurts and lipsticks.
What is carmine or cochineal?
200
What enzyme does the GMO Artic Apple 'turn off'?
Polyphenol oxidase (PPO)
300
This is the term for a fatty acid with no double bonds.
What is a saturated fatty acid?
300
This vitamin helps with blood clotting and is found in leafy greens. It is usually given to newborns within 6 hours of birth.
What is vitamin K?
300
This type of mixture is uniform throughout, with particles at the molecular level, like a well-mixed cup of coffee with cream.
What is a homogeneous mixture?
300
Using this information, what percent of the calories are from saturated fats? (Round to the nearest whole number.)
16%
(15.9%)
300
This device is commonly used in labs to measure the absorbance of light by a colored solution.
What is a spectrophotometer?
SpectroVis is also acceptable as an answer.
300
This type of GMO rice was developed to combat vitamin A deficiency.
What is Golden Rice?
400
These fats are created during industrial hydrogenation and have been banned in many countries.
What are transfats
400
A deficiency in this vitamin can cause scurvy.
What is vitamin C?
400
If industrial wastewater contained 9.6 ppm of mercury contamination, how much mercury would be in 1 liter of the wastewater?
1 liter = 1000 mL = 1000 g
What is 9.6 x 10-3
or 0.0096 g
400
In the fat extraction lab from food (potato chips and chocolate), which of these foods contained primarily saturated fats and which contained mostly unsaturated fats, and how did you know?
The potato chip fat was unsaturated, as it was a liquid
The chocolate was mostly saturated fats, as it was a solid.
400
What is the color of the food dye that produced this absorbance graph?
What is red.
400
These "caviar" pearls are made by dripping liquid into a calcium bath during this technique.
What is basic spherification?
500
This is the chemical structure that makes phospholipids (like lecithin) emulsifiers.
What is an amphiphilic structure (hydrophilic head + hydrophobic tail)?
500
This vitamin deficiency can lead to neural tube defects in developing fetuses.
What is folic acid, folacin, or folate (vitamin B9)?
500
How much 10% solution is needed to make up 500 mL of a 2% solution?
What is 100 mL
C1V1=C2V2
(10%)(V)=(2%)(500mL)
V = 100 mL
500
How many protons, neutrons, and electrons are in this Oxygen isotope?
There are 8 protons, 10 neutrons and 10 electrons
500
You need these many steps to dilute a 100 mg/10mL solution to 0.1 mg/mL using serial 1:10 dilutions.
What is 3 steps?
500
This GMO animal was approved for consumption in the U.S. in 2015, engineered to grow faster.
What is the AquaAdvantage salmon.
600
This four-ring steroid is a lipid produced by the body and found in animal products.
What is cholesterol?
600
Excessive amounts of this fat-soluble vitamin can lead to liver damage and bone issues.
What is vitamin A?
600
How much water must you add when making 3000 mL of a fruit punch drink from 250 mL of an 87% concentrate?
It would make a 7.25% concentration, BUT the answer is 2750 mL.
600
This sensory evaluation method, which experts use to detect defects in olive oil, is called organoleptic testing (or sensory analysis). In 1912, a pharmacist used this type of testing to rate what other food?
Wilbur Scoville used organoleptic testing for the pungency and heat in peppers.
Photo: Emma Darvick
600
After three 1:2 dilutions, the fraction of the original concentration remaining is this.
What is 1/8
600
This compound, often paired with calcium chloride, is used to create spheres in spherification.
What is sodium alginate?