food science

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the study of the nature of foods and the changes that occur in them naturally and as a result of handling and processing.

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Origin of food science

First recorded in 1965–70

Words nearby food science

food mill, food poisoning, food pollen, food processor, food pyramid, food science, food security, food service, food stamp, foodstuff, food stylist

Example sentences from the Web for food science

The first Spanish-language recipes in Mexico were written by poet, philosopher, composer and nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, who was fascinated by food science, especially involving sugar.
Learn to make cajeta, a Mexican confection with multilayered sweetness and history|Adriana Velez|April 12, 2021|Washington Post
The danger zone for food—where bacteria thrive—is between 40 and 140 degrees Fahrenheit, says Sean O’Keefe, who works in the department of food science and technology at Virginia Tech University.
Want to Get Outside All Winter? Bring Your Thermos.|AC Shilton|November 29, 2020|Outside Online
We have been building as strong as a food science, food application, culinology approach as we have protein science.
Motif Foodworks preps commercial production for its first ingredient, improving the flavor of beef substitutes|Jonathan Shieber|October 1, 2020|TechCrunch
As an example of good science-and-society policymaking, the history of fluoride may be more of a cautionary tale.
Anti-Fluoriders Are The OG Anti-Vaxxers|Michael Schulson|July 27, 2016|DAILY BEAST

Citizens, perhaps, need to feel like they can communicate something to science.
Anti-Fluoriders Are The OG Anti-Vaxxers|Michael Schulson|July 27, 2016|DAILY BEAST
“I heard Jeffrey was interested in supporting science and I contacted him,” Krauss said.
Sleazy Billionaire’s Double Life Featured Beach Parties With Stephen Hawking|M.L. Nestel|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
“We talked about the science the whole time the other day,” Krauss told The Daily Beast in a phone interview.
Sleazy Billionaire’s Double Life Featured Beach Parties With Stephen Hawking|M.L. Nestel|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
And there is definitely something to finding solace in food, familiarity, and memory.
Everyone at This Dinner Party Has Lost Someone|Samantha Levine|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
And I have not had the first morsel of food prepared from this grain offered me since I reached the shores of Europe.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley
The general commanded a halt, and ordered the men to refresh and strengthen themselves by food and drink.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
It was he who first said, If thine enemy hunger give him food, if he thirst give him drink.
Solomon and Solomonic Literature|Moncure Daniel Conway
As the weeks wore on, the pretence of practical teaching was quietly dropped, and we crammed our science out of the text-book.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
I cannot see in science, nor in experience, nor in history any signs of such a God, nor of such intervention.
God and my Neighbour|Robert Blatchford

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