What is Food?Food is any substance consumed to provide nutritional support for the body. It is usually of plant or animal origin, and contains essential nutrients, such as carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, or minerals.
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What is Food? Food is any substance consumed to
provide nutritional support for the body. It is usually
of plant or animal origin, and contains essential nutrients, such as carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, or minerals.
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Food sources: Plants Many plants or plant parts are
eaten as food. There are around 2000 plant species
which are cultivated for food, and many have several distinct cultivars. Seeds of plants are a good source of food for animals, including humans. Fruits are the ripened ovaries of plants, including the seeds within. Vegetables are a second type of plant matter that is commonly eaten as food.
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Food sources: animals Animals are used as food either
directly or indirectly by the products they produce. Meat
is an example of a direct product taken from an animal, which comes from muscle systems or from organs. Food products produced by mammary glands. In addition, birds and other animals lay eggs, which are often eaten, and bees produce honey, a reduced nectar from flowers, which is a popular sweetener is many cultures.
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Taste perception Sweet: generally regarded as the most pleasant
taste, sweetness is almost always caused by a type
of simple sugar such as glucose or fructose, or disaccharides such as sucrose, a molecule combining glucose and fructose.
Salty: saltine is the taste of alkali metal ions such as sodium and potassium.
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Taste perception Sour: sourness is caused by the taste
of acids, such as vinegar in alcoholic beverages.
Bitter: bitterness
is a sensation often considered unpleasant characterized by having a sharp, pungent taste.
Umami: the Japanese word for delicious, is the least known in Western popular culture but has a long tradition is Asian cuisine.
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Cooking The term “cooking” encompasses a vast range
of methods, tools, and combinations of ingredients to improve
the flavor or digestibility of food. Cooling technique, known as culinary art, generally requires the selection, measurement, and combining of ingredients in an ordered procedure in an effort to achieve the desired result.
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Raw food preparation Certain cultures highlight animal and vegetable
foods in their raw state. Salads consisting of raw
vegetables or fruits are common in many cuisines. Sashimi is Japanese cuisine consists of raw sliced fish or other meat, and sushi often incorporates raw fish or seafood.