Chem 180 Food

Chem 180 Food – Spring 2004

Course Assignment Calendar – Version 1.03.04

Date	Topic	Assignments
1/19	Course Introduction
1/21	A little Chemistry	Models, structures, and shape 627-637
1/23	Taste Taste Activity - Supertasters	Read text pp 565-570, 153-157 Read Blackboard (The Senses) Taste Matters, Making Sense of Taste, and Tasty Molecules
1/26	Smell Smell	Read text pp 154-157, 560-565 & 571-574 Read Blackboard (The Senses) The Molecular Logic of Smell and Smelly Molecules
1/28	The Senses Lab 1-Blind Tasting	Worksheet due 2/4
1/30	Chemistry of Fats	Read Text:597-607 Blackboard (Fat) Lipid Molecules
2/2	Fats – Are they Bad for you	Read Blackboard Fats and Health Discussion Topic 1 – Should people worry about how much fat or only what kind of fat they eat? What should be done about trans- fats?
2/04	Emulsions in foods and cooking –Demonstration - Making Mayonnaise	Read text pp. 348-366 & 577-585
2/06	Chocolate Lab 2- Tasting and DSC	Read text pp. 397-409 Lab Report due 2/13
2/09	Fats and chocolate concluded	Read Blackboard Public Apathy and healthier fat
2/11	Carbohydrates - chemistry	Read text pp. 226-249, 585-590 & 123-136,
2/13	Colas – Liquid Candy	Read Blackboard Liquid Candy, Red Bull, Caffeine Corner Read text pp 367-369 & 385-396
2/16	Caffeine	Read articles in Blackboard Find one additional article relevant to the effects of caffeine. Discussion Topic 2- Should Soda and other sweetened products be taxed like alcohol to reduce consumption?
2/18	*EXAM 1*	Senses, Fats and Carbohydrates
2/20	Protein Chemistry Demo- denaturation	Read text 590-597, 82-95, 407 & 105-116
2/25	Protein Chemistry Meat and Gluten	Read – Bread Read Text pp 273-313
2/27 – half of class off	Lab 3 -Cooking activity Cookies and Muffins – effects of gluten and leavening agents	Lab 3 due 3/8
3/01 – half of class off	Lab 3 -Cooking activity Cookies and Muffins – effects of gluten and leavening agents
3/03	Dietary requirements for protein	Read Blackboard 2 articles on Athlete’s Diet in Nutrition folder
3/05	Nutritional Analysis software and USDA food pyramid	Read Blackboard Nutrition folder: 2-CSPI articles, USDA articles and Birth of Modern Diet Read text pp 527-552 Lab Activity 4 – Monitor your diet Report Due 3/24
3/08	Vitamins – biochemistry and chemistry	Read text pp 535-550 Read Blackboard Cooper Appendix 1 and 2
3/10	Antioxidant vitamins and health Demonsration- Browning Reactions	Read Blackboard Cooper Chapter 1 and 2 Read Blackboard CSPI Prostate cancer Discussion topic 3 – Should you eat the USDA –RDA of antioxidant vitamins or should you eat the NAS Maximum safe level?
3/12 No Class Meeting Discussion on Line
3/22		Read text pp 608-610, 150-153, 166-168, 202-203, 500-500-504
3/24	Antioxidants Concluded	Read text pp 559-560
3/26	Weight Management	Read Blackboard Counting Calories and 2- Calorie restricted diets and aging Lab 4 Diet analysis
3/29	Weight Management Continued
3/31	*EXAM 2*	See outline in Course Documents
4/02	Popular Diets	Find information on a popular diet on the Web. Input one day’s food into the nutritional analysis program and print the results. Come to class prepared to discuss your findings. Read text Ch. 11 pp 517-552
4/05	Food and the Media	Read Deadly Persuasion Chapter 1, 2, and 5
4/07	World Hunger and Starvation	Read two documents in External Links folder on World hunger
4/09	Crop Protection Chemicals and Antibiotics – Why do we need them and what are their problems?	Read documents in External Links Antibiotics folder
4/12	Organic Foods – Are they really better?	Read Bruce Ames document in Organic Food Folder
4/14	GM Foods – Why bother?	Read Blackboard article GM Food to fight plant diseases
4/16	GM Foods – Good Bad or Otherwise?	Listen to American Radio Production Read 4 articles from Sierra Magazine Discussion Topic 4- Defend one of the following ideas: Ban all GM Foods (forever or until some conditions are met?) The Gov’t should fund GM food development for products with identifiable value GM food development does not need to be restricted in any way but label the foods GM food development does not need to be restricted in any way and labeling is expensive and unnecessary.
4/19	Food Additives	Text pp 499-514
4/21	Food additives color	Lab 5 - TLC of food dyes in M&M’s Report due 4/26
4/23	Fermentation Fermentation and the beginnings of civilization	Read text pp. 426-438 & 466-481
4/26	Alcohol- Choose your poison	Read- Deadly Persuasion Ch 7 Read text pp 494-498


	*FINAL EXAM*