EPISODE · Dec 23, 2011 · 6 MIN
Cooking up Chemistry
from Ecogeeks : Untamed Science Video Podcast · host Jonas Stenstrom and Louise Fornander
We are all chemists! Every day we are doing chemistry in our own homes. When we eat and prepare food, we are actually doing chemistry. In the preparation of food, a lot of different chemical reactions are happening that create new and tasty molecules. We then eat these molecules and digestive reactions begin in our bodies. Yet, even before the food ends up in our kitchen, there is a lot of chemistry involved in the production and storage of the food. This month we investigated some of the different chemical reactions related to food. Learn more about the International Year of Chemistry and the chemistry of food here.
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How can chemists improve our food? There is a lot of chemical research going on around food. In addition, we have a rapidly growing global population - and malnutrition is a huge global problem. We need to find more efficient ways to produce our food and maintain a high nutritional value, and chemists play an important role in this effort. They are working on ways to pervasively improve the health of the world's population. Chemists work to increase production yields, understand nutrient uptake, find better ways to preserve the food for efficient transports, find ways to use more of the available food, and throw less away - just to mention a few.
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