Goals for Food Chemistry

 

Concepts

  • Foods contain starches, sugars, fats, and/or proteins.
  • Specific chemical and physical tests can be used to determine whether a food contains starches, sugars (in this unit, glucose), fats, or proteins.
  • Iodine can be used to test for starches, glucose test paper for glucose.
  • Varying amounts of starches, sugars, fats, and proteins are found in foods.
  • Starches and sugars are carbohydrates.
  • Glucose is a kind of sugar.
  • Carbohydrates, fats, proteins, water, vitamins, and minerals are nutrients.
  • Nutrients are essential to human health.