Food Preservation
How Food Preservation Works from How Stuff Works. Information on many different ways of preserving food. Also a nice video showing bread manufacture. Please ignore the ads.
Food irradiation from Better Health (Victorian Government site). This is a way of processing and preserving food.
How Food Preservation Works from How Stuff Works. Information on many different ways of preserving food. Also a nice video showing bread manufacture. Please ignore the ads.
Food irradiation from Better Health (Victorian Government site). This is a way of processing and preserving food.
Food Processing
9 Ways That Processed Foods Are Slowly Killing People This is a persuasive text: The author is strongly against highly processed foods, however, he does present some important facts. Processed: Food Science and the Modern Meal This is made for an adult audience, but there is some interesting information. Even apples are processed. This is very simple processing. They are given a wax coating to make them last longer. The wax is natural and is edible - apples do produce their own wax, but added wax helps apples to stay fresh for a year. 10 Quirky Facts About Mass-produced Food Sugar on your fries, seaweed in your ice-cream and maggots in mushrooms. This is an American article and some of the foods are not common in Australia. |
Food Processing - How is it made?
Chocolate There are two videos to watch: the first shows cocoa beans being picked and the seeds prepared, then click on the link to see chocolate made.
Butter. A simple video that show how you can make your own butter. More complex instructions with more information about the process.
Hot Dogs. Pay attention to what goes into them.
Bread. Here is what we would put in bread if we made it at home. This page tells what else goes into factory bread - click on the left hand menu under How bread is made.
Breakfast Cereal. This video mentions that things are added, but you will need to read your cereal packet to see exactly what all those extra ingredients are. What percentage of each bowl is grain, and what is sugar?
Chocolate There are two videos to watch: the first shows cocoa beans being picked and the seeds prepared, then click on the link to see chocolate made.
Butter. A simple video that show how you can make your own butter. More complex instructions with more information about the process.
Hot Dogs. Pay attention to what goes into them.
Bread. Here is what we would put in bread if we made it at home. This page tells what else goes into factory bread - click on the left hand menu under How bread is made.
Breakfast Cereal. This video mentions that things are added, but you will need to read your cereal packet to see exactly what all those extra ingredients are. What percentage of each bowl is grain, and what is sugar?
General information about food
Food There is a lot of information here about things we do when we grow or process food. WARNING!!!!!! The following web sites are made by people who want to sell you their food.
Are they telling you all the things they put in their food? Look out for persuasive language. Kellogg's Sanitarium Cadbury (They add chocolate flavour to the chocolate!) Bega Cheese. Have a look at their products, which are grouped into "natural" and "processed." What else other than cheese is in the "processed" cheese? |
What is a Flow Chart? Here is a link to explain and to give examples.