Fruits and Vegetables
This enzyme, found in pineapples, is commonly utilized as a meat tenderizer within the food industry
What is Bromalin?
This protein structure defines how peptide chains fold around themselves to form specific functional shapes.
What is the tertiary structure?
Muscle, adipose tissue, and what are the three major components of meat. What is connective tissue?
What is connective tissue?
These are the fat-soluble vitamins essential for human health.
What are vitamins A, E, D, and K.
This type of heating transfers energy through direct contact through a solid.
What is conduction heating?
Plant fats are typically found in this fatty acid configuration.
This is the pH at which a protein is electrically neutral.
What is the Isoelectric point?
This connective tissue is the most abundant protein in the body.
What is Collagen?
This diglyceride, named after the Greek word for yolk of an egg, is broadly used as an emulsifier in the food industry.
What is lecithin?
The preservation method reduces microbial load through the application of temperature/time.
What is Pasteurization?
This category of plant pigments are responsible for the synthesis of Vitamin A within the body.
What are carotenoids?
This process allows producers to facilitate protein precipitation from specific solutions.
What is Salting Out?
This lipid, found in anima protein, is essential for cell membrane formation, hormone production, and Vitamin D synthesis.
What is Cholesterol?
These antioxidants are an important source of Vitamin E.
What are tocopherols?
Food irradiation uses this type of radiation to kill bacteria and insects on fresh fruits, vegetables, and meats.
What are gamma rays?
This group of plants are variations of a single mustard plant selection for their phenotypical variations.
What are brassicas?
This complex series of reactions are responsible for the development of flavor, color, and aroma in protein-containing foods.
What are Maillard reactions?
Carbohydrates are stored as what in animal tissue?
What is glycogen?
A fatty acid tail with a double bond after the 6th carbon is called this.
What is an Omega-6 fatty acid?
This term refers to food additives not intentionally added to food products.
What are Indirect Food Additives?
This process prevents enzymatic browning that can occur during freezing.
This part of the amino acid structure is responsible for the function of that particular amino acid.
What is the Side Chain (R-Group).
The contraction and relaxation of muscles are regulated by this element in the body.
What is calcium?
This source of shortening has a large fatty acid crystal structure, leading to very flaky crusts.
What is lard?
This type of food additive is added to foods to retain moisture.