Food Definition and 280 Threads

A small but strong number of entries. This time, your vote is very important in determining who will win the Elton Brown DVD set, so every vote counts! Please vote for the best picture that represents our theme, which is on Food and/or Wine. 1. alex_caps...

[FONT="Comic Sans MS"]Food and Wine This week, your picture must have, as its main subject, anything related to food and/or wine. Please make sure that this theme is clearly evident in the picture. [SIZE="4"]There is an added incentive for this contest! For this contest only, the First...

There is an old saying from India, If you keep your stomach healthy, head cool, and feet warm, no sickness/disorder can touch you. Basing on that, all of our body(regardless of work out) doesn't do a 100% job at digesting food. So why don't we make things a lot easier for ourself but drinking...

Doesn't our body rejects what it doesn't need? Then why do we die when we take poison? Unless our system can't digest it and get it out of its system I guess. I have heard of cases where a person takes too much poison and the body rejects it. Also of the science where when a person is biten...

Homework Statement You are to fix dinners for 400 people at a convention of Mexican food fans. Your recipe calls for 2 jalapeno peppers per serving (one serving per person). However, you have only habanero peppers on hand. the spiciness of peppers is measured in terms of the scoville...

Food slows down the absorption of alchohol?? 1. The presence of food in the stomach, particularly fats, greatly slows down the absorption of alchohol and drugs into the body. This what I've read in a report on the internet, but I don't know the reason why the rate of absorption slows down. Can...

I know there are plenty of cat lovers on here, but I think even you people can't stand them when there are THIS many! :biggrin: This is actually scary! Zz.

If people are advised to take an "energy boost", so to speak, they're advised to take in sugary substances. Yet, the thing is - all nutrients are absorbed through the small intestines. But does food stay in the stomach for a number of hours? And then, what factors control the passage of food...

Homework Statement Explain why autotrophs occupy the lowest level of the food chain. The Attempt at a Solution I not sure but i think its because they are producers and have the highest energy level (10 000 J) so they the primary source of energy for other consumers.

Hey , My classmates and I were asked to give a presntatoin about "food irradiation" and I'm the one who 's responsible about shielding calculations. I want to show that 6 m (19.69 ft) of water is enough to shield gamma source so that the exposure dose for workers doesn't exceed the maximum...

Better hold the bacon on that BLT. http://www.thestar.com/article/205623 On another side of the situation the FDA is wondering if the Chinese companies involved may have added the melamine intentionally. Apparently it makes protein content appear higher. it has also shown up in rice...

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/03/23/pet.food.recall.ap/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

Story continued at: http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/03/17/petfood.recall.ap/index.html There's a pretty extensive list of brands affected. Most are store brands, but also some Iams and Eukanuba products from one P&G plant. The article link above has the list of store brands. You can go to...

They are my favorite fast food, well not fast as in cooking time, but fast as in prep time, the problem is the toppings, i have ran out of ideas, cheese is good as is chili (from a tin), whatever, it must be a strong tasting topping, any ideas?

I need to runs this by some others to make sure it checks out. The guy that runs bugsweeps.com claims that microwaved food is dangerous. He claims that the water molecules in the food keep oscillating at 2450 MHz after the food is removed from the oven and this is somehow dangerous to us. So...

What type of food (which is adequate as a meal and last the person doing low physical level activity for at least 5 hours) results in minimal accumulation of urine in humans right after consumption (offcourse provided no intake of liquid during the food intake either before or after). Although...

I'm considering starting a journal, where every month I post an article that analyzes some aspect of programming subjectively. The article will consider a problem, analyze it in depth, and delve into a solution with snippets. All the while, it will hopefully teach readers about some more...

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I am vaguely aware that the food we eat constitutes a sort of fuel that can be thought of as "calories" for comparative purposes, but I don't really have any idea how the body takes this fuel and harvests energy from it. A certain amount of the calories we eat have to go to maintaining body...

Ok, thanks to those for bearing with me the flames in the the scientist arrogance thread. I really appreciated your comments. I was in bad mood, but I think my bad mood is caused by your food!. :bugeye: Now talking seriously. I have noticed during my staying here that your food habits are so...

I know it has to due with the calories and such that we are consuming, but how does the food help to actually 'wake us up'?

Tonight my father and I got into a debate over the weight of food ingested and its effect on the weight of the body. 4,086 calories is needed to deposit or burn 1 lb of fat 1,000 grams equals 2.2046 lb 1 gram of fat is 9 calories 1 gram of sugar is 4 calories 1,000 grams of fat...

I always cringe when I see posts by people who are playing with turbines in their garage. So, whenever I come across something like this, I like to share. Case: A GECF680A2 on an AA 767. Looks like an HPT disc failure. http://www.flickr.com/photos/lafd/159079755/in/set-72157594153722446/...

Is it true that if you take the same food, same amount and everything except one serving is heated and another is not. Would the person eating the heated serving get more nutritional value from it in the form of more energy? This comes about from the larger potential energy stored in the bonds...

Folks, I screwed up! I missed the 2nd page of the photo contest submission. So to be fair, we are going to do this all over again and all the previous votes do not count. Again, apologies for the oversight. A smaller number of entries than the previous contest, but still excellent pictures...

[SIZE="5"]FOOD Any pictures of food or food-related. The central focus of your picture must be about food. Constest Rules: 1. Any digital photo relevant to the theme will be accepted within the contest period. In case there's a grey area, or you're not sure if the picture is suitable...

"Exploring the Abyss"-- Food Webs of the Sea Directions: 1. Create a chart to show five different animals found at great depths. The chart needs to include the name of the organism, characteristics, and special adaptations for surviving in that habitat. 2. Create a food web for the...

please tell me how to make goody cheese sauces? Thanks

I've always heard (from professionals as well) that each step in a food change has a roughly 10% efficiency rate. That is, you earn 10% of the energy the lower chain animal/plant earned when it ate/did whatever. Now my question is in regards to what you hear a lot of hippie-types say: Humans...

Hey guys, I need a good website or two that deal with limits from the ground up. Thanks

I was wondering something. If you compare home-cooking in general, fast food, casual restaurant, and fine restaurants... what would be the order of fat and calorie content if each makes a similar meal of similar size? Of course, i don't think a fine restaurant would serve a bbq bacon...

Does anybody have any information on developments in food preservation in the past 100 years? I need to make a poster on it, but I can't seem to find any dates so I can make a timeline. I've googled "food safety" "food preservation" etc., but all the sites have more information on the...

http://healthandenergy.com/ethanol.htm I thought it was soppsed to be cheaper:rolleyes: What ever happened to Hydorgen fuel cells powerd cars.

On monday, I decided I'd buy some Chinese food, and bought enough to last a few days. I got a quart of Pork Lo-Mein, white rice and a big serving of Sesame Chicken. I ate some combination of those for dinner on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday night. Each of those nights, I felt like I was...

I have to create a Food Web but I need a bit of help... Dolphin Bacteria Mullet Pelican Right Whale Shad Jack Shrimp Phytoplankton Eagle Copepods I've placed the following already: Bacteria Phytoplankton Shrimp Copepods Right Whale Dolphin Jack Shad I have an idea of...

Hi, please help me with this. Find the cost per meal if you serve 120000 meals, spend $46000 in food purchases and $1250 worth of food was removed from the inventory. How should i proceed with this problem. Please let me know,thanks.

My idea. I read somewhere that the gas from three cows could provide the cooking fuel for a family of five, and you could have fresh milk and cheese, and beef when the animal is old, i know we don't all have gardens but lots of tower blocks have flat roofs, so that is where they could be...

http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/food.html t resteth now that we speak of boyled meats and broth, which forasmuch as our House-Wife is intended to be general, one that can as well feed the poor as the rich, we first begin with those ordinary wholsome boyl'd meats which are of use in every good mans...

I'm not sure if this is the right place for it though! What exactly cuases various foods to "go bad". What causes a tomato, for example, to ... well, be not so ripe and firm. What causes bread to go bad? What about other fruits and vegetables? Also, is there a way to keep foods from going bad...

does it make since if it takes 675 food Calories to lift me up 17 ft look below *IGNORING HORIZONTAL DISTANCE* i got to figure out how much work is done to get myself up from my class to the cafeteria which is 17 ft in vertical hieght PE=mgh my weight is 120 lbs i converted to mass...

I am find it amazing that removing some electrons from foods can preserve the food for a longer period of time. So I am just curious about some of the recent developments in food irradiation.

So what do you think is the best part about eating food. Which leads to the question, if they turned food into a pill that you just swallowed for all your nutritional and "hunger" needs, would you switch to it?

Assume I have a data set that I am trying to find a distribution that describes how the data is distributed. Assume I have found a function say f(x) = e^{ - x^2 } that describes the distribution of data. Statistics tells me that my first move in doing so is to normalize this function so that...

I was reviewing a basic food science lecture slide and came across the term CHO in the middle of it on slide 26-28. But there is no explanation of what it is (what it stands for). The lecture was a basic introduction on carbohydrates. Anybody know? The information on the slides are below...

A morsel of food with a mass of 4.2g is injected into the esophagus with an initial speed of 2.5cm/s. On the way down to the stomach, the walls of the esophagus exert an upward resistive force of 0.0027 N on the morsel. Ifthe esophagus is 20cm long, with what speed does the morsel of food enter...

I've recently drawn up several machines that handle food. However I wanted to know if there are any materials that I should stay away from, for handling food. To clarify, I would like to go to a harware store to pick up supplies, but is it ok to run liquids or store food in pvc for example...

Over these past few weeks, I've be wanting to watch my diet carefully, so I scale myself every day. I noticed that before dinner, I was 140, but after dinner, I was 143.5. Why is that? I am sure I didn't instake 3 pounds of food...

Not sure if this is the right forum for this question (maybe I need some microwave theorists instead?) , but: a friend of mine was telling me about an article she read about microwave food being unhealthy for you. Apparently, living off a diet of microwave for too long, even though you are...

[FONT=Times New Roman]Hello there, unusual question but can anyone think of some good physics related foods? for example: an apple (Newton) a pie (3.14...) Milky Way/Galaxy/Mars bars :-p you get the idea :-p

I'm in middle school, and they just passed this gay law(or so I heard.) saying that junk food shouldn't be allowed in schools. WTF?!? It's pissing me off... :mad: