Science you can eat

Stefan Gates

Book - 2019

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

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Subjects
Genres
Instructional and educational works
Illustrated works
Published
New York, NY : DK Publishing 2019.
Language
English
Main Author
Stefan Gates (author)
Edition
First American edition
Physical Description
96 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Bibliography
Includes index.
ISBN
9781465468437
  • 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 unions 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?