F_S 1030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Irradiation, Food Safety, Food Science
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Food science o is the scientific study of raw food materials and their behavior during formulation, processing, packaging, storage, and evaluation as consumer food products. Areas in food science o o o processing (engineering) packaging chemistry: microbiology o sensory evaluation nutrition regulation compliance o o. The scientific study of food is one of people"s most important endeavors, mainly because food is their most important need. Food is essential for life: the relationship between food and health is undeniable. What you eat has both immediate and long term effects on health. Evolution of food science: hunter-gatherers spent 100% of their time engaged in obtaining food, transitioning to farming allowed some people to do other things. o. Industrial revolution could not have occurred without division of food producers from consumers: the average american spends less than 1 hour a day preparing food. Food issues: americans consume about 2000 lb. of food per year, one in seven people in the world are undernourished.
