Food Science Quiz

The scope of food science starts at overlap with agricultural science and nutritional science and leads through the scientific aspects of food safety and food processing, informing the development of food technology.

Food science brings together multiple scientific disciplines such as chemistry, physics, physiology, microbiology, and biochemistry.

Food technology incorporates concepts from chemical engineering, for example.

<p>Activities of food scientists include the development of new food products, design of processes to produce these foods, choice of packaging materials, shelf-life studies, sensory evaluation of products, as well as microbiological and chemical testing.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Institute of Food Technologists defines food science as 'the discipline in which the engineering, biological, and physical sciences are used to study the nature of foods, the causes of deterioration, the principles underlying food processing, and the improvement of foods for the consuming public'.</p> Signup and view all the answers