Food Chemistry

By Shubh Garg
What is Food Chemistry
• Food chemistry is the study of the chemical makeup of foods
and more in depth about what foods contains.
• It is the study of the characteristics of food

• Food chemistry is the study of chemical processes and

interactions of all biological and non-biological components of
foods. (Wikipedia)
• Food processing ways and techniques
Relation to chemistry
• Food is extremely relevant to chemistry because food is made
up of chemical compounds
• It is made up of oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, and carbon
Main components in Food
Chemistry
• Carbohydrates
• Proteins
• Lipids
Citations
• http://www.math.unl.edu/~jump/Center1/Labs/
WhatisFoodChemistry.pdf
Thanks for watching

BY SHUBH GARG