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Science to Go With Dr. Joe Schwarcz

Science to Go With Dr. Joe Schwarcz

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Dr. Joe Schwarcz, professor of chemistry at McGill University, tackles the science of food. In this series, he explains the following chemical aspects of some of the most popular foods: additives, vitamins, minerals, dieting, and health food.

Milk is added to a breakfast cereal. Caption: You're staring at the birth of the health food movement,
Science to Go With Dr. Joe Schwarcz
Episode 1
22 minutes 35 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
A sliced bread and few bread crumps. Caption: We've been making it for more than 4,500 years.
Science to Go With Dr. Joe Schwarcz
Episode 2
22 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
A corn mixture travels in a conveyor belt. Caption: Starch and gluten are separated from the germ.
Science to Go With Dr. Joe Schwarcz
Episode 3
22 minutes 35 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
A bull's eye egg in a pan. Caption: that eggs contain lecithin and other ingredients.
Science to Go With Dr. Joe Schwarcz
Episode 4
22 minutes 35 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Hamburger with patty, tomato, lettuce, and onion. Caption: How it gets there owes a great deal to science.
Science to Go With Dr. Joe Schwarcz
Episode 5
22 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
A scoop of chocolate flavored icecream in a glass bowl. Caption: Dr, Schwarcz, Everybody has a favorite ice cream,
Science to Go With Dr. Joe Schwarcz
Episode 6
22 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Tomato ketchup is prepared in a large container. Caption: The kind you get cooking tomatoes into paste.
Science to Go With Dr. Joe Schwarcz
Episode 7
22 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
A glass of soft drinks with effervescence popping on its surface. Caption: So what's the real deal. What's the skinny on the fizzy.
Science to Go With Dr. Joe Schwarcz
Episode 8
22 minutes 35 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Two dip tea bags are inside a transparent glass with water. Caption: This is the second most popular drink in the world.
Science to Go With Dr. Joe Schwarcz
Episode 9
22 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Grape fruit. Two grape pulps with their skin peeled are zoomed in. Caption: because they are fermented with the grape skins.
Science to Go With Dr. Joe Schwarcz
Episode 10
22 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12