Food Chemistry
This colligative property is 0 °C for pure water.
What is freezing point?
This is the word for the unfolding of a protein due to effects such as pH or temperature.
What is denaturation?
The Irish dependency on this food caused a famine from 1845 to 1852.
What is the potato?
Olaf from Frozen has one of these foods as a nose.
What is a carrot?
This functional group is found on phenylalanine.
An amino acid and a reducing sugar undergo Amadori rearrangement in this browning reaction named after a French scientist.
What is the Maillard reaction?
Contrary to is name, raw chicken, as opposed to fish, is a common source of this food illness that is responsible for the most food-borne illness related deaths.
This dessert, called mille-feuille in its native language, takes its American name from a French general who lost at the Battle of Waterloo.
What is Napoleon?
Uh oh! Time for the Drawberry challenge! Select a teammate to participate.
One teammate will be given a list of six foods. They will have 30 seconds to draw all six foods. After the time is up, the rest of the team will guess what they have drawn. 50 points for each food.
Triscuits and panko have this specific cooking technique in common.
What is being baked by electricity?
These are the two axes of a moisture sorption isotherm.
What are water activity and moisture content?
This amino acid, found in high concentrations in turkey, is the largest.
What is tryptophan?
It is time to play Oreoguessr! Everyone will play.
Given the following food companies, guess what state it is in. The team to get the most correct wins.
The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy is a work in this Tchaikovsky ballet.
What is The Nutcracker?
It is time to play Fruits of the Labor. Everyone will play.
Write down a fruit for every letter of the alphabet. The team with the most points wins. You have one minute.
This number is the molecular weight of acetic acid (± 5 g/mol).
What is 60 g/mol (55-65 g/mol)?
Uh oh! It is time for the balanced diet question! Select a teammate to participate.
You will stand on one leg for as long as you can. While standing on one leg, name as many organelles as you can. For every organelle you can name before putting your foot down, your team gets 50 points.
The embalmed beef scandal occurred during this 1898 war.
What is the Spanish-American War?
In Greek mythology, Persephone gets trapped in the underworld for consuming this food.
What is pomegranate?
This is the name of the alcohol consumed in George Orwell's 1984.
What is Victory Gin?
This element is found at the center of polyphenol oxidase. This element is also found in hemocyanin.
What is copper?
These are the two primary proteins found in muscle contractions.
What are myosin and actin?
This Swedish fermented fish is widely considered one of the smelliest foods in the world.
What is Surströmming?
This Dutch artist is responsible for the painting "The Potato Eaters".
Who is Vincent Van Gogh?
FULL NAME REQUIRED. This Cubist painter created works like "Still Life with Biscuits" and "Fan, Salt Box, Melon".
Who is Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso?