Processing
According to the FDA manufacturing/processing means making food from one or more ingredients, or synthesizing, preparing, treating, modifying, or manipulating food, including food crops or ingredients
What is processed food?
Consistency
What is food firmness or thickness?
Plants, animals, or micro-organisms that have had their genes altered through genetic engineering using the application of recombinant deoxyribonucleic acid (rDNA) technology
Modified by the addition of certain nutrients at levels established by federal standards to replace those lost during processing
What is enriched?
Food Additive
What is a substance added intentionally or unintentionally to food that becomes part of the food and affects its character
Relating to the sense of smell
What is Olfactory?
Genetic information in a chromosome
Any deliberate change to a food before it is available to eat, such as salting, fermenting, drying, canning, freezing, packaging, or other types of transforming food
What is processed foods?
A field of study focusing on genetically determined biochemical pathways linking specific dietary substances with health and disease
What is nutrigenomics?
Whole Food
What is foods as they are found in natural state, minimally processed, free from additives or artificial ingredients?
Nutraceutical
What is a bioactive compound (nutrient or non-nutrient) that has health benefits?
These two terms can be used interchangeably when labeling claims to indicate the addition of one or more vitamins, minerals, or proteins to a food unless an applicable Federal regulation requires the use of specific words or statements
What is enriched and fortified?
What is whole food?
Gustatory
What is relating to the sense of taste?
The alteration of a gene in a bacterium, plant, or animal for the purpose of changing one or more of its characteristics
What is biotechnology?
Any substance the intended us of which results or may reasonably be expected to result, directly or indirectly, in its becoming a component or otherwise affecting the characteristic of any food (including any substance intended for use in producing, manufacturing, packaging, processing, preparing, treating, packaging, transporting, or holding food; and including any source of radiation intended for any such use; if such substances is not GRAS or sanctioned prior to 1958 or otherwise excluded from this definition
What is food additive?
Previously called genetic engineering
Biotechnology
A sensory phenomenon characterized by a dry, puckery feeling in the mouth
What is Astringency?
A food or beverage that imparts physiological benefits that enhance overall health, prevents or treats a disease or condition, and/or improves physical/mental performance
What is a Functional Food?
What is modified by the addition of a nutrient that was not present in the original food?