FDST 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Saturated Fat, Genetically Modified Organism, Genetically Modified Food

• School: UTK
• Department: Food Science and Technology
• Course: FDST 100
• Professor: Pruett

Document Summary

Assist consumers in food selection: healthiest diet. Outlines what food manufacturing must include on their labels: every label must have certain components. Grams of fat x 9 calories per gram= calories. Grams of carbs x 4 calories per gram= calories. Grams of protein x 4 calories per gram= calories. Ingredient statement: first is the one that"s most important. Allergens: peanuts, tree nuts, milk, egg, soy, fish, crustaceans, wheat. Products that may look like or be conventional food. Can be consumer as part of a usual diet but apart from supplying nutrients they can reduce the risk of certain chronic diseases. Health promoting compounds or products that have been isolated or purified from food sources and they are generally sold in medicinal form. Foods that are produced using methods that do not involve modern synthetic inputs (pesticides and chemical fertilizers) Do not contain genetically modified organisms or food additives and its not processed using irradiation.