Book

Science you can eat / Stefan Gates.

Summary:

Explores the science behind food, nutrition, and cooking. Includes twenty experiments for young readers to further understand the science at home.

Record details

ISBN: 9781465468437
ISBN: 1465468439
Physical Description: 96 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Edition: First American edition.
Publisher: New York, NY : DK Publishing, 2019.
Copyright: ©2019

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Where it all starts -- What is food? -- Taste -- Trick your taste buds -- How smell works -- The world's smelliest fruit -- Why we love food -- Salt and other marvelous minerals -- Food and color -- Ways of cooking -- Microwaves -- Cooking without heat -- Unusual foods -- Vitamins and minerals -- Find iron in your cereal! -- Why does popcorn pop? -- The sticky science of gum -- Water is wonderful -- Fizzy cola -- Instant ice cream -- Drinks that glow! -- Exploding food! -- Cool cabbage -- Sour science -- Color-changing cabbage -- Invisible ink -- Inside an egg -- Naked eggs -- Brilliant bread -- What makes bread rise? -- Ripening bananas -- Good and bad mold -- When food is dangerous -- Hot stuff -- Why do onions make us cry? -- Edible slime -- Digestion: the journey -- Super saliva -- Rude food and explosive pee -- Amazing vegetables -- Fantastic fruit -- Eating meat -- Fake meats -- The foods of the future -- Would you eat a bug?