Food Basics
What grain is the main ingredient in bread?
Wheat
A diet high in processed sugars and fats is linked to diseases like this.
Diabetes (or heart disease)
What country did the research focus on
What group promoted scientific cooking and modern kitchens in the early 1900s?
Home economists
Calories in BD half & half?
± 100 kcal
650 kcal
( i think )
The famous Costco hot dog + soda combo costs this much
$1.50
In the reading, this pastry is used as an example of food shaped by many cultures.
Croissant
The paper suggests that having more of this did not automatically make people healthier, especially when diets became narrower and more processed.
Food / food supply
What type of food became popular because it saved time for homemakers?
Processed (or manufactured) foods
Sugar (g) in Parkside LaJoy's Cheese Danish
±5g
19g
This ingredient in pizza actually came to Italy from the Americas.
Tomato
What is defined as a set of instructions for the recreation of dishes?
Cookbooks
This grain made up over half of the diet in early northern China.
Millet
What field studies the ways that hidden germs coupled with ill-informed food preparation could lead to sickness?
Bacteriology
Calories in Collins Farm Chipotle Chicken Panini?
±100 kcal
733 kcal
What macronutrient is the body’s main source of quick energy?
Carbohydrates
Where did the croissant originate from?
Austria (Vienna)
The authors argue that this environmental force helped push people toward heavier reliance on agriculture.
Climate change
Vileisis ends the chapter arguing that feeding modern America depended not only on cultivating farms, but also on cultivating this.
What is the ignorance of shoppers?
Protein (g) in Whispers corner 17 black pepper chicken (half)?
±10g
39g of protein
This spice comes from the inner bark of a tree.
Cinnamon
This term means building something using whatever materials are available.
As diets narrowed, people relied more heavily on this kind of food source.
staple crop
Harvey Wiley exposed this brand's "contented cows" advertising as misleading after visiting their suppliers in 1913
Carnation (evaporated milk)
Calories in Beast Craft Pulled Pork Sandwich
±100 kcal
720 kcal