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Who Am I
Environmental,
personal or just social
Digest this
About acids, bases, and neutrals
OH MY!
What's happening?
100
This food scientist helps determine whether a given food product meets certain standards.
What is a quality control specialist?
100
A grandparent looks for help in choosing healthful foods for her changing nutrition needs.
What is personal?
100
A muscle that steadies food's entry into the small intestine
What is pyloric sphincter?
100
Having an equal number of hydrogen ions and hydroxide ions.
What is a neutral?
100
The direct change of a substance from a solid to a gas. Dry ice is an example
What is sublimation?
200
This is the man who discovered many uses for peanuts and other Southern crops.
Who is Sir Francis Bacon?
200
A wedge of cheese has flaky white spots but still smells good
What is personal?
200
Waves of contractions that impel food through the digestive tract.
What is peristalsis?
200
A substance that responds to pH by changing color
What is an indicator?
200
The temperature at which a substance has enough energy to break from a solid to a liquid structure
What is melting point?
300
A food scientist who helps create, modify, and market food products.
Who is a R & D specialist?
300
A new crop variety is poisonous to pests, reducing the region's insect population
What is environmental?
300
The liquefied form of food that enters the small intestine.
What is chyme?
300
A substance that releases hydroxide ions in solution.
What is base?
300
The energy a substance uses or releases to change phase.
What is latent heat?
400
This was a man from England, known for his work in Food Science even before the term was coined.
Who is Sir Francis Bacon?
400
A school lunch program introduces "veggie burgers"
What is social?
400
The "trap door" that closes off the windpipe when food is swallowed.
What is epiglottis?
400
A substance that prevents blood from becoming too basic or acidic
What is a buffer?
400
Temperature at which liquid water exerts an upward vapor pressure equal to the downward air pressure
What is boiling point?
500
This is a food scientist who studies tiny organisms that help produce food or cause spoilage.
Who is a microbiologist?
500
Scientists discover how to use a native weed in a nutritious feed for cows.
What is environmental?
500
A fluid that contains mucus, salts, and enzymes to begin the chemical breakdown of food.
What is saliva?
500
A result of hydrogen ion and hydroxide ion combining
What is water?
500
The energy used and released when 1.0 g of a substance is changed from a liquid to a gas
What is heat of vaporization