Food Chem Exam 1

What are the four major food components?

1) Proteins 2) Lipids 3) Carbs 4) Water

What are the three minor food components?

1) Vitamins 2) Minerals 3) Phytochemicals

Define Food Chemistry

The study of relations between structure & functional properties of foods in a molecular basis

What are the two reasons that Water has anomalous physical properties?

1) The size of Oxygen compared to Hydrogen 2) 104 bond angle

What is slow cooling?

Results in large ice crystals found only in extracellular areas

What is super cooling?

Freezing water w/ very low temps (less than freezing point)

What happens to crystallization speed as the supercooling rate increases?

Crystallization speed decreases