Unit Resources: Semester 1
Taste & Flavor
-Lecture Notes PDF “Barb Stuckey: Taste What You’re Missing” (start video at minute 10:25)
-Food Careers:
Choose 1 of the following careers:
Respond to these three questions:
How does this person contribute to how food is produced/consumed?
Does this person seem happy with their job?
Does this career (or something similar) seem of interest to you?
Labeling, Additives, & GMOs
-Referenced in the “What is Genetic Modification? Video:
Genetically Modified Plants: Questions and Answers
(Royal Society - United Kingdom based)
Great resource to explore some frequently asked questions about GMOs
-Sketchable Recommendations from Books: "Food Anatomy" by Julia Rothman - pages 16-17
-Click the link to read Part I and II of: The Story of the Laws Behind the Labels (only pgs 1-11)
Response Suggestions:
When was the FDA founded?
What were some of the reasons the FDA was founded?
What were some of the problems with the 1906 Act?
-Click the link below to read about: "The Top Ten Food Additives to Avoid"
Response Suggestions:
List the 10 Food Additives to Avoid and one product where they might be present in
-Click below to read about: Campbell's Decision to Label GMOs Destroys Monsanto's Main Argument Against Labeling
Wheat, Bread, & Pasta
-Sketchable Recommendations from Books:
"Food Anatomy" by Julia Rothman - pages 71, 76-79, 84-95, 99
"Farm Anatomy" by Julia Rothman - pages 100-101, 180-182
Other videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3sP2jwG9jc
Grain Anatomy
https://eatwheat.org/learn/wheat-kernels-2/
https://flour.com/anatomy-of-a-wheat-kernel/
https://flour.com/types/
Apples & Oranges
-Sketchable Recommendations from Books:
"Food Anatomy" by Julia Rothman - pages 41
"Farm Anatomy" by Julia Rothman - pages 102-103
-Video: Clip from Food Network "The Big Waste"
-Reading: Historic Apple Industry in Arkansas
-Reading: Biography: John Chapman
Chicken
-Sketchable Recommendations from Books:
"Food Anatomy" by Julia Rothman - pages 104-105, 126-127
"Farm Anatomy" by Julia Rothman - pages 32-35, 108-115, 187
-Reading: "USDA Imposes Stricter Limits on Salmonella in Poultry Products"
Milk, Cheese, & Butter
-Sketchable Recommendations from Books:
"Food Anatomy" by Julia Rothman - pages 134-147
"Farm Anatomy" by Julia Rothman - pages 128-131, 183-185
Potatoes & Carrots
-Sketchable Recommendations Books:
"Food Anatomy" by Julia Rothman - pages 60, 151
"Farm Anatomy" by Julia Rothman - pages 87, 92-93
Sugar & Chocolate
-Sketchable Recommendations from Books:
"Food Anatomy" by Julia Rothman - pages 168-171, 206-207, 210
"Farm Anatomy" by Julia Rothman - pages 166-169
-Interactive Site: Sugar Beets Processing by the Western Sugar Company
-Reading: "A Brief History of Chocolate" (Smithsonian, 2008)
Tomatoes & Peppers
-Sketchable Recommendations from Books:
"Food Anatomy" by Julia Rothman - pages 40
"Farm Anatomy" by Julia Rothman - pages 85-86, 88-91
Melons
-Sketchable Recommendations from Books:
"Food Anatomy" by Julia Rothman - pages 44
-Reading: "Saving the Sweetest Watermelon The South Has Ever Known"