food science

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• kbin_space_program@kbin.run ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Whem you hear food engineering, think of things like how Pringles chips give a huge burst of flavour then shatter in your mouth with a nice crunch, buy leave nothing to chew.

  Or how fast food burgers like Mcdonalds and Wendy's similarly give lots of flavour but nothing to chew.

  Both are examples of engineered foods. In both cases, designed to leave you wanting more.

  They work on two principles.

  1. The brain wants flavour and crunch.
  2. It cheats on immediate fulness by counting bites/chews.
     You can counteract their food design with smaller bites and chewing more.

  This was from a CBC Radio special on the science of fast food I recall from far too long ago.

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  • Devi@beehaw.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Food engineering is engineering in the food industry, so like developing and streamlining manufacturing, developing new packaging, that sort of thing.

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    • kbin_space_program@kbin.run ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Also preservation and development of preparation techniques.

      To that extent: pringles are pressed potato powder. Because it meets the need of a chip that is easily and precisely formed, easily preserved and falls apart with little pressure.

      To describe fast food and highly processed junk foods as anything but engineered does a disservice to the word "engineering.

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• RagnarokOnline@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Pretty on-brand for a food engineer… Any chef will tell you don’t start on the top dusting of a tiramisu until you’ve used your microcrane to complete all the other layers.

  There just begging for a smudged topcoat smdh

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• disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  A friend of mine got a food engineering internship after completing his degree in chemistry. He was tasked with incrementally adding a new preservative to a measured bowl of cereal, and tasting it at each interval, to mark down the amount that could be added without detecting a change in taste. He had to do this for every cereal in their line.

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  • Eheran@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Why would they let someone with a degree do that?

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    • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Welcome to the world of industrial internships. Haha

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If someone told me they were a “food engineer” I’d just assume they bought into the stupid name corporate calls the people who flip burgers at McDonald’s because it sounds fancier.

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• JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s a toy, right?

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  • Carnelian@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m not an expert but I’m pretty sure that is a lasagna?

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    • anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s tiramisu.

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    • JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I mean the people and the crane

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    • BlackPenguins@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Clearly we need Garfield in here then.

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    • PoolloverNathan@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ah, the old Lemmy yachtaroo

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    • kamenlady@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It looks pretty sweet though. Looks to me like some Italian dessert.

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  • TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No. Those are actual people and crane in front of a gigantic food bowl.

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