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?
Voice of Reason! Everyone gets to play.
We will be playing an audio file. In this audio file, members of the food science faculty will say the word "Pterodactyl". Your job will be to figure out who is speaking and write down your answer. You will receive 50 points for each correct guess.
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.
Oreoguessr?
Given the following food companies, guess what state it is in. The team to get the most correct wins.
These are the two axes of a moisture sorption isotherm.
What are water activity and moisture content?
These are the two primary proteins found in muscle contractions.
What are myosin and actin?
This country is where Caesar salad originated.
What is Mexico?
The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy is a work in this Tchaikovsky ballet.
What is The Nutcracker?
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 element is found at the center of polyphenol oxidase. This element is also found in hemocyanin.
What is copper?
This amino acid, found in high concentrations in turkey, is the largest.
What is tryptophan?
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?