Questions tagged [food-chemistry]
For questions related to the chemistry of food.
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What chemical changes will occur in food when we place it at ambient temperature? [closed]
When we place food at ambient temperature, the microbial growth increases. But, is there anything else that happens. I mean what chemical changes occur in food that can cause contamination or can make ...
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what happens if i mix caustic soda with a sugar solution (made of coconut sugar and water) [closed]
what happens if i mix caustic soda with a sugar solution (made of coconut sugar and water). I read that caustic soda and sugar mixed together produces carbon monoxide. Is it different if it is mixed ...
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if adding NaHCO3 to water gives NaOH how is it safe in food? [closed]
I did this experiment where I make crystals by adding $\ce{NaHCO3}$ to boiling water until no more dissolves and put that in two different containers then put a string in both containers and wait some ...
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Buffer when testing soda with DCPIP
We are testing a range of sugary drinks (coca cola, orange juice, and chocolate milk) with DCPIP to detect vitamin C. The coca cola has given a false positive and we were wondering if this is due to ...
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Purpose of measuring chloroform soluble extractives
I noticed that tests such as the FDA ones are measuring "chloroform soluble extractives". I understand that chloroform is toxic and its effect to human if exposed to it. But does that mean ...
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How to make a paste out of vinegar?
I am trying to make a smooth vinegar cream for short term use of up to about 3 months (i.e. no preservatives are needed if stored in a cool place).
Vinegars such as apple cider vinegar or pure acetic ...
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Why does chickpea flour need to rest for several hours?
Many traditional Italian recipes make use of chickpea flour (e.g. farinata and cecina). Before cooking the recipes suggest to mix the flour with water and make it rest for several hours (in some ...
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Can a plain sheet of stainless steel adhering to the 316 grade be regarded as food safe at every finish level?
My question is not purely about chemistry but it definitely involves it.
I was looking for a while to buy a food-grade stainless steel plate that would fit my home pizza gas oven (to have the dough ...
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Why is instant coffee powder not as dark as the coffee resulting from it?
Instant coffee granules generally are of a light brown colour, while coffee made from it is a deep black. Pigments are far more concentrated in the dry form, to add water is to dilute them. Still, ...
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Would the addition of Citric and Phosphoric Acid or Potassium Carbonate to agricultural water supply result in health/safety concerns?
I am doing a small greenhouse project for fun. As a side benefit of this project, I was hoping to consume the food that I will be producing. I have been checking all of the products that I will be ...
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What is the difference between milk and cream that causes disparate result when freezing and thawing?
If you freeze milk and then let it thaw/melt again you just need to shake and it is more or less indistinguishable from unfrozen milk. That is not true for cream - after letting frozen cream (40 % fat)...
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What is the relationship between content of elemental magnesium and magnesium ʟ-threonate?
Looking at some supplements descriptions and comparing with recommendations of magnesium intake. From magnesium ʟ-threonate supplement description:
Recommended daily intake (4 capsules) contains 2000 ...
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Will a liquid-liquid emulsion and the separated emulsion have same volume?
Let's assume that there is no dispersed gas (bubbles). Not sure about dissolved gas; maybe you can tell me if that matters. Ordinary liquids (aqueous solution and biological oil). Surfactants are ...
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How can semicarbazide occur during meat processing other than from nitrofuran treatment/feeds?
Since nitrofurans are banned e.g. in the EU from use in food-producing animals, but not entirely as medications for humans, there have been some stories/reports of possible diversion of human-intended ...
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Why are some colorings called "Fast", i.e. Fast Yellow AB (E105)?
Every time I look into things like this, I keep seeing talk about "fast food logos", so I've hit a dead end. What makes a specific color "fast"?
I see Fast Yellow and Fast Green ...
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Which form does Casein take in milk (before and after extraction)? [closed]
In this video, NileRed said
casein is exists in milk as a salt Calcium caseinate. And that structure of the salt is composed of ...
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Is there a way to put helium or any other gas into food?
Kinda like pop rocks puts bubbles of carbon dioxide gas into their candy to make it pop, If someone put bubbles of helium into some sort of food light enough then would it float? And how do they even ...
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Storage solution for oxygen sensitive liquid chemicals?
I'm needing to transfer oxygen sensitive liquid chemicals from a 5 litre bottle to many 100ml storage solutions. Since I'm transferring a large quantity I plan on operating within an inert atmosphere ...
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I mix table salt and baking soda with water to make mouth rinse, and leave them for several days. It started to form precipitation, and a bad odor [closed]
I mixed 2 spoons of baking soda with 1 spoon of salt and mixed them with water (but not mixing totally) and left them for several days. At first I saw some bubble but the water was clear, but then it ...
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Deactivate lectins in beans by baking
Having dried uncooked beans,
I read that the lectins can be deactivated by boiling and soaking for a while. What I could not find any information on is if dry baking beans would eventually deactivate ...
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How do I get calcium citrate to precipitate in experiment on extraction of citric acid from juice?
I was planning to extract citric acid from mango juice by first using Aspergillus niger fungus by fermentation to convert the mango juice to citric acid, then extracting by first adding sodium ...
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How Bread is made with yeast, sugar and luke warm milk? [closed]
Materials and Apparatus:
wheat flour
sugar
dry yeast
glass bowl
covering plate
milk
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Lukewarm milk is taken in the glass bowl and sugar is added to it. Then, yeast is added to the same.
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Why do purple Pedialyte freezer pops turn green when frozen?
I bought some Pedialyte freezer pops for my kids:
And I've noticed that after spending a long enough time in the freezer, the purple "grape" pops change color from purple to green:
After ...
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Why isn't canned food good forever? [closed]
So everything inside the can has been killed and nothing can get in. So why doesn't it last forever then?
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why did a mixture of water, sugar, starch effervesce after adding a little bit of glycerol as humectant? cooking at 130 degrees celsius [closed]
I am trying a new formulation of lokum (turkish delight) which is a gel composed of starch, water and sugar. After adding 0.5% of glycerol to a 170 Kg of a boiling mixture, it became fugitive and ...
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What is the composition of diet coke?
I've been trying to find the values of any sort of percentage composition of diet coke and I haven't found any luck other than one interviewee (Dr. MAUREEN STOREY [Senior Vice President, Science ...
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Procedure for measuring EC
Most of the procedures on the internet are of a university research lab level. Is there a simpler method I could use to determine the concentration of EGCG
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How to maximize shelf-life of freeze-dried food beyond 25 years? Can this exceed 100 years?
Many manufacturers will sell and advertise emergency preparedness food packs to still taste "great" 25-30 years into the future (or at least maintain a consistent taste over this period). ...
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Understanding the pH scale for edible food!
I'm working on a website where I want to provide the pH level of plants! Although i don't even know what this is (I have zero knowledge in chemistry), I have to provide it! What I want to do is ...
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Does sour milk have something else in it besides lactic acid that gives it such a horrific taste and odor?
Even slightly sour milk has a horrible, nauseating taste, while plain yogurt tastes either great, or at least nowhere near as bad. A dozen sources (all of them) say that the sour odor and taste of ...
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Turning oil into solid for candles [closed]
I added stearic acid to hot vegetable oil and saw it turned to a sludgy, slush material in about 1.5 hours. Is there any other natural additive that I can add to make it more solid in the same amount ...
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Is there a known value for the molar extinction (absorption) coefficient for amylose and amylopectin iodine complexes?
I am doing a colorimetry experiment with starch, and have a theoretical model based on Beer's law. To solve it, I need a known value for the molar extinction coefficients of amylose and amylopectin ...
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What do we know about the structure of the amylopectin iodine complex?
I am studying a method of finding the ratio between amylose and amylopectin using the difference in color of the amylose-iodine complex(blue) and the amylopectin-iodine complex (red/brown).
Through ...
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Why do green bell peppers become bitter when cooked?
Why do green bell peppers taste sweet raw, but become bitter when cooked (steamed)?
What chemical process is responsible for this? (I don't believe the temperatures are high enough for the Maillard ...
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What does solid matrix mean?
I am reading "Effect of Freeze-Drying on Quality and Grinding
Process of Food Produce": A Review by Timilehin Martins Oyinloye and Won Byong Yoon.
The problem is they are referring to the ...
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Carcinogenicity of home coated cast iron pans
Cast iron pans are a traditional cooking utensil and are becoming more and more popular in recent years.
I myself switched from Teflon/ PFC pans to cast iron pans.
To use the pan they are normally ...
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Could shear force from blending denature alpha amylase / glucoamylase enzymes?
I am trying to break down the starches in a certain variety of oats in the most efficient way possible. I have to break the whole oats down after cooking, so they are finer particles for the amylases ...
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What factors promote honey's crystallisation?
Honey is a complex mixture containing, probably, more than hundred compounds.
I understand that the % of those components will affect the crystallisation.
However, I am wondering what factors may ...
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How does iodine react with amylose and amylopectin, and can iodine colorimetry be used to determine the ratio between the two starches?
Based on some of the methods of studying starches in rice I looked at, I found that there are two general distinctions:
ones that focus on the ratio between amylose and amylopectin
ones that focus ...
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Why does sodium citrate in water turn black when blueberries are added?
I recently started making oral rehydration therapy for someone I'm taking care of who developed POTS after COVID-19 infection. (ORT was recommended by their doctor.) I use the standard ingredients of ...
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Can Fe and Ca react and become unusable in some foods?
In Turkish cuisine there is a popular food called "tahin pekmez" (tahini with grape molasses).
According to a 2017 article on some Turkish news site, mixing these is supposedly counter-...
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How to extract limonene from the orange peels?
What is a reasonable procedure to extract the orange essential oil from the rinds? I thought this would be a common experiment.
Here's what Wikipedia had to say, they identify the essential oil as ...
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Carbon Sequestration For Indoor Farming
First the backstory:
We've begun growing mushrooms (currently Enoki, Lion's Mane and Blue Oysters if anyone is curious) for the sake of eating and maybe potentially selling someday soon. My partner ...
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If I hard boil eggs in a pressure cooker, will I get the same results regardless of altitude?
This seems like it should be obvious but for some reason (my chemistry is very rusty) I'm having a hard time articulating why the hardboiled egg recipe in an instant pot should yield the same results ...
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How to correct the pH and composition of bottled water?
For some time I've been buying a brand 'A' of (non-sparkling) bottled water.
It wasn't easy to find one that I liked, because I make tea with it, and most other brands I tried made murky, smelly, dark ...
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The importance of the cold chain in the food and the pharmaceutical industry
There are these everyday things that one should know as a scientist and especially as a chemist, but which never come to light in an academic curriculum — at least not in mine.
One such thing is the ...
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Does heating potato starch destroy its resistant starch?
Resistant starch, as found in potato starch, is supposed to have health benefits. There are differing opinions on whether or not heating potato starch destroys the resistant starch in it and thereby ...
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Why are there no alkaline foods?
It takes some work to find a list of the actual pH of various foods. (Searches are confounded by a popular "alkaline diet" theory that the pH effect on a human body of consuming various ...
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Does fractionation use enough heat to destroy nutrients in Coconut Oils when seperating the MCT oils?
We have recently been giving MCT (medium-chain triglyceride) oil to our dogs in place of Coconut Oil as from what I understand the majority of the benefits of Coconut Oil comes from the MCT's ...
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Are food calorie values really integers?
According to what I've seen, fat has a listed caloric value of 9 Cal/g, while carbs and protein have listed caloric values of 4 Cal/g.* Are these numbers exact, or have they been rounded? And if they ...
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