Food Definition and 290 Threads

Hiccupping helped to remove the food stuck in my throat. I get food stuck in my throat from time to time when I don't chew well enough and I am a bit parched. Primarily with rice or similar foods. Last night it happened again, and after 30 minutes of it being stuck, I began to hiccup. After...

My wife and I have been slowly trying to phase out plastic from our lives and well it's mostly impossible, but we've been making a large effort with food packaging, containers, and beverages. We've been switching to glass and aluminum containers/bottles. Between the microplastics, toxins, and...

I recently noticed that my mouth is heating up after eating some biscuits named as Energy Biscuit. It's not the taste because I can feel it by touching. It's very weird as I have never experienced it before when eating biscuits. So why is this biscuit heating my mouth so much? The product...

That, and why does the overcooked / hardened food become bonded or firmly stuck to the cookware?

Howdy folks. I have a couple spares of these https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01NAL6MND/?tag=pfamazon01-20 and I was thinking about repurposing one as a food dehydrator. Do I need to worry about fumes? IIRC the max temp is 150F. Will one of these help...

Relevant code: if (food.x === snake[0].x && food.y === snake[0].y) { // increase the size of the snake snake.push({ x: snake[snake.length - 1].x, y: snake[snake.length - 1].y }); where snake is an array of objects. Each object is x and y coordinates of snake position...

Here's the full code. snakeArr.unshift({ x: snakeArr[0].x + inputDir.x, y: snakeArr[0].y + inputDir.y }) This is the code to increase the size of snake once it collides with food. The code above it and below it, sound play when food is eaten and changing food location when food is eaten are...

Along with the endless complexities of life and the evolution of life, it occurs to me that at all points there had to be enough available nutrition for existent life forms - and that food supply itself had to go through a process of evolution. It seems self-evident that the environment of early...

The "sleep hormone" melatonin, sold at health supplement stores, has been found to prevent radiation sickness from ionizing radiation: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30073934/ There are also some other references for this findable with a Google search. But you don't want to be on melatonin...

Hello all again. You might have heard or remember the food pyramid they would teach about in grade school, there is a Wikipedia article on it. I would prefer the latest updated version of that if its healthier then the Mediterranean food. I thought about switching to eating healthy using the...

[Mentor Note -- Merged accidental double-thread-start] In which animals is sex determination based on either food availability. Females of the Common reed frog have shown to exhibit a sex change, which is thought to occur due to low male density in the environment, so that's not quite what I...

This thread shall be a place where we can talk about anything fast-food related. Does anyone here actually dislike fast food? I know it's not healthy, but it's sure darn good. ...The Mexican pizza is back at Taco Bell. I like certain items at Taco Bell, but this is not one of them. I...

I have been avoiding food contained in Styrofoam for many years because I always don't feel good about it. My impression about Styrofoam used in old times was that when they were compressed or deformed with a slight force by hand it would break partially into granules which was undoubtedly a...

A teen ate leftover rice and noodles. Hours later, doctors amputated his legs and fingers https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2022/02/22/leftover-food-disease-amputated-legs-fingers/6890754001/ The article later mentions bacterium . . ...

One day I cooked and found a tiny bug in the hot pot, I really did not know how it fell into it and I know that it was simply a matter of luck to find it, then I start to realize that I may have eaten many bugs over the years unknowingly. Bottom line, how bad would they be?

I know that food is dissolved in hydrochloric acid in the stomach, and carbohydrates are eventually extracted for use in cellular respiration which if I understand correctly is essentially a complex combustion reaction, using oxygen and releasing CO2. Outside the stomach, I can partially...

You always hear about how famous big food companies have recipes locked away in vaults. They never want to give away the secret sauce so competitors can copy them. However, with all we can do with modern technology, why can't we send a Chick-Fil-A sandwich over the a lab and have them...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/whales-removed-an-abundance-of-carbon-from-earth-then-humans-killed-3-million-of-them/ar-AAQhjRA And whales produce a lot of poop, which feeds life forms at the bottom of the food chain.

Because you know, science. Nitrogen is nitrogen whether it comes from a factory or a bovine posterior, and ‘natural’ insectides can be every bit as toxic as ‘artificial’ ones not to mention reducing crop yields but people have weird purity taboos around food and organic is kosher/halal for...

Hi, are all these preservatives? are they dangerous for the human body even though it can't kill you instantly but might slowly over time? are they ok to consume OR ok to consume in certain doses/small doses to where my life span won't be shortened? Is yellow 5 bad for the human penis or causes...

US References: https://ods.od.nih.gov/HealthInformation/Dietary_Reference_Intakes.aspx DRI provides basic nutritional intake guidelines. There are extensive tables broken out by nutrient, by age and by gender. Terminology: USDA Food data central (FDC) https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/ The EU...

Hi again. I was wondering, does eating candy, Ice cream and junk food shorten ones life span? If yes then how much does it need to be to be able to do that to the human body? What effects does it have on the human body? can it give you diabetes and other body conditions like that? How much of...

Most recipes I see on the internet for fried chicken advocate a dry breading. By contrast, most recipes for fried fish use a liquid breading, although they sometimes specify a preliminary coating with flour before the fish is dipped in the liquid breading. Are there reasons for this pattern -...

Since supplement sales in North America are multi-billion dollar enterprises and many people take one or more supplements, this is a useful way to find out if there is a problem with a supplement interacting with a food or a drug. Supplements are sometimes prescribed, like Coenzyme Q10 for...

Even though they are destroying millions of chickens, cows and pigs, this is also going to cause shortages and price increases of all other foods as people have to find alternatives and start hoarding. https://www.yahoo.com/news/food-supply-chain-breaking-tyson-213539680.html In a related...

Hi, Questions in the title. I figure it might be like the food pyramid that I learned in grade school however I am not sure and of course to save time by avoiding all the BS out there, I came to ask here as I have done in previous threads. by foods and drinks, I mean for example: protein, fiber...

Hi again all, question is in the title of this thread. I also want to note that I am talking about healthy food and drinks only. Does eating fresher food increase ones life span OR have you live longer? I thought of this question recently and didn't google it at all as I thought that would be a...

Hi, Can i know how having cold meals daily effects out health in long term? Thank you

This is a futurist site, curious about how far away this really is Huge benefits to food security, CO2 emissions, public health etc https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2019/09/ten-times-cheaper-but-better-food-is-going-to-radically-change-your-world.html

Hi! Is there any research or experiments that show what happens to bacteria that in normal conditions end up without any food to consume? Do they continue to exist? And if yes, in which form? Many thanks for any thoughts

Hi I would like to know the facts about this

Hi so I'm really new to stats, like I know mean, median, mode, and t-testsish and that is it. However, this topic really resonates with me because I know it can have real world applications. So these are my questions. First off here is my real world problem. At my workplace, we sell food that...

Suppose I have two apples, one is white and the other is black. Both apples are exactly the same except for their colors. The black apple is darker than the white apple because it absorbs more energy than the white apple, correct? Would that mean that the black apple would have a higher energy...

Hello physics forums I'm looking to make a food delivery bag and to keep the food as hot as possible as long as possible. I want to use the cheapest materials I can find. My knowledge is limited and so far my plan is to sandwich some cardboard between aluminum foil. I was then going to line the...

This thread is about cancer risk and organic food consumption - reporting on it mostly. USA today: (drive by journalism?) https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/10/23/eating-organic-food-may-prevent-cancer-french-study-suggests/1737791002/ Commentary from JAMA (a critique)...

Preserving food at home involves putting produce in glass jars and heating them to kill pathogens like bacteria, fungus, yeast, etc... The USDA recommends AGAINST using an oven to preserve food. They only support the boiling water method, which involves submerging the jars in a pot of boiling...

What do you think? Why would he think microwaved food would be dangerous? He doesn't really explain why...Most of the time that I heard microwaved food was dangerous was from crackpots that also thinks we will all get fried by 5g wifi... this is a teacher though kind of concerning Starts at...

I figured out (a) but I am having trouble with (b): (a) What is the efficiency of an out of condition professor who 2.10e5 J of useful work while metabolizing 500 kcal of food energy? (b) How many food calories would a well-conditioned athlete metabolize in doing the same work with an efficiency...

Hi again, not sure where to post this but for about a year or 2 now I have been buying all non gmo food/drinks with the usda seal on it or with the butterfly symbol on the food products because for whatever reason, I had decided to invest in non gmo food for safety, because I might have thought...

Just out in the British Medical journal. http://www.bmj.com/content/360/bmj.k322 or permalink doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.k322 And here is a link to the NOVA classification of "Ultra-processed" food...

I'm looking for the least expensive method for making food grade zinc carbonate (for a molecular gastronomy recipe I'm developing). I know it can be done with the soluble forms of zinc (sulfate, chloride and possibly acetate) by combining them with sodium carbonate (which I have), but the...

"Plant pathologist Steven Savage of the CropLife Foundation analyzed the data from the https://www.agcensus.usda.gov/Publications/2012/Online_Resources/Organics/index.php, which reported various measures of productivity from most of the certified organic farms in the nation, and compared them to...

Hi everyone! I remember a while back that the General Discussion had a Food thread, and I admit that among my guilty pleasures are watching cooking shows or travel shows with food as a theme (whether on TV or on Youtube). This reminds me of a question I wanted to ask all of you -- what is the...

It is amazing that we throw away 38 million tonns of food each day, This thread is for tips on reducing food waste, how to use left overs etc. https://www.epa.gov/recycle/reducing-wasted-food-home#ways. If you feel guilty about throwing away food, and you should, contribute to this thread...

Perfect Food : Is it possible to design our daily food/meals in such a way that it has all the nutrients (100% absorb-able) but no waste parts, thus removing the necessity for the body to excrete anything at all? (This will reduce the food quantity making it cheaper; I understand that fiber...

One of my goals is to spend as little as possible on food without being malnourished or hungry. It's not that I can't afford to spend a couple hundred a month on food, I'd just rather use that money for something else or save it. So I know I can buy ramen noodles dirt cheap, probably less than...

I think it would be a pizza because you can divide it into fractions and halfs and is interesting and different as maths is.

While experimenting with an idea for a demonstration in surface tension, I ran across something interesting. I placed a drop of red food coloring on a glass slide, and let it dry. Once dry, the residue was a light green in color, but when held up to let light pass through it, it looked red...

Hi, I need to find out about the length of time it takes to change from one state of matter to another. This is a food industry problem. For example, how long does it take to freeze a leg of lamb? Does the time it takes depend and anything in particular? Going the other way we can speed up...

Hello folks, Got a project I've been tasked with completing. We have a small meat locker, approximately 4' x 6', and I need to design and build an above-head rack system to hang hams and other meats on. (approximately 50 to 60 lbs each) Can anyone offer a good starting point for a food grade...