CHEM 181 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Bran, Pomegranate Juice, Flax

• School: McGill University
• Department: Chemistry
• Course: CHEM 181
• Professor: Ariel Fenster

Document Summary

Keep people up to date on scientific progress. E. g. health food stores, bloggers (vani hari, yvette guinevere- the science babe") People used to eat food based on its flavour and taste. Now immense concern for vitamin content, nitrates (nitrite), mineral content, etc. Want to know about trans fats, cholesterol, and calorie content. People want natural substances -myth that natural is safe, unnatural unsafe. Natural does not necessarily equate to safety, nor does synthetic equate danger. Chemical becoming dirty word, almost synonymous with poison. Industry listens to what people want, humour stupid desires (natural) Led to kraft removing artificial ingredients from mac & cheese. Ingredients not included becoming more important (e. g. juice popsicles) Food used to be valued for its taste, now the components are of greater import. We are what we eat food only raw material taken into body. You also are what you read flooded with info. Pomegranates historically (biblically) considered anti-aging and preventative of cancer and heart disease.