Flavour enhancer Essays

  • Essay On Food Additives

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    and is absorbed into the bloodstream from the stomach and the small intestine and then sent around the body. Alcohol is carried to the brain through the blood. Too much alcohol can impair judgment and affect coordination. Flavours and Colours – most foods have colours and flavours added to them in an attempt to make them look and taste better. All food colourings and flavourings have to go through an approval process to ensure that they are safe to use in the European Union and they will carry a letter

  • Monosodium Glutamate: Discovered By Kikunae Ikeda

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    Discovered by a Japanese chemist professor named Kikunae Ikeda in 1908, MSG is short for monosodium glutamate, which is a white, odourless free flowing crystal and is the sodium salt of glutamic acid. Its chemical properties are that it is soluble in water, doesn’t decompose and its functional groups are amines, ketones and aldehydes. Ikeda, a professor at the Imperial University of Tokyo discovered that humans can come across a fifth taste which is called umami, derived from the word umai, meaning

  • Annotated Bibliography: Victory Over ADHD

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    Source 1 Source: book Title: Victory over ADHD Author: Merlin, D. Publisher: Healthy Living Publications Place of publication: Summertown, Tenn Year Published: 2009 Citation: Merlin D Accessed: 20th February 2015 This source explains that food is good for all children. It stimulates the mind and helps with energy and concentration. The source also discusses how food should be taken in moderation but it also directly affects how a child thinks and feels. Food builds up the brain and helps children

  • The Third Instinct

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    This is a gargantuan challenge that includes television, processed meats, flavour enhancers, video games, adult topless bars, internet porn, contraception, narcotics, shopping, fashion magazines, and even commercials! Add to this huge challenge the fact, that humans have a third basic instinct, which has gone virtually unnoticed, buzzing

  • Osmosis Research Paper

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    Factors Affecting the Rate of Osmosis I. Research Question: How does the amount of Monosodium glutamate or MSG (C5H8NO4Na) concentration affect the osmosislarity of cow (Bos taurus ) liver cells? II. Background information Osmosis is the diffusion of water molecules through a partially permeable membrane from a region of high water concentration to a region of low water concentration. The factors affecting the rate of osmosis are temperature, concentration gradient, molecular size, surface area

  • Bacillus Research Paper

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    2.3 BACILLUS SPECIES The bacillus genus comprises of gram-positive aerobic or facultative anaerobic endospore-forming rod-shaped bacteria that includes both mesophiles and extremophiles (Priest, 1993). Bacillus species are ubiquitous and environmentally diverse, they include thermophilic, psychrophilic, acidophilic, alkalophilic and halophilic bacteria. The bacteria produce spores under unfavourable environmental conditions. Spores produced are resistant to heat, drying, disinfectants and other destructive

  • The Evolutionary Theories Of Human Nutrition

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    Contrary to popular belief many scientists today believe that the evolutionary theory is somewhat relevant to Human Nutrition. Charles Darwin, an English Naturalist and Geologist quoted in his publication of the ‘Origin of Species’ that over time individuals with the desired traits will successfully reproduce and pass this on to the next generation. As Darwin puts it, it is “an evolutionary mechanism for descent with modification” (Campbell, 2014). This process ‘descent with modification’ came when

  • The Pros And Cons Of Food Safety

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    Food safety was in the beginning of the 21st century a hot item. It was the central theme for comsumenten and food producers had. The appropriate response has been, it is not entirely clear. There have indeed been a number of food safety problems, but also now do for themselves and are almost always the result of problems in processing. There are always food safety problems that are a direct result of fraud. In recent years, particularly zoonotic diseases in animals that can be transmitted to humans