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food science

noun

  1. 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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Word History and Origins

Origin of food science1

First recorded in 1965–70
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Example Sentences

Because not all students had access to ingredients at home, he expanded his curriculum to cover the business side of culinary arts—including Business 101, Accounting 101, hospitality law and food science—in addition to recipes.

From Time

Yael Vodovotz, professor of food science and technology at Ohio State University, says that “from a scientific point of view,” gummies are a particularly flexible delivery vehicle.

From Eater

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.

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.

We have been building as strong as a food science, food application, culinology approach as we have protein science.

Though she worked on a very small slice of food science, Bacigalupe takes a more meta view of the class and her experiment.

“Personally, I have kind of no actual background in food preparation or food science,” he says.

I will now consider vegetarianism from the standpoint of true food science, or the welfare of the physical man.

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