Assignment 8

  • What was the host looking at in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam? Who was the artist? What did it depict?
  • Why would the old artists not recognize the items that us consumers have in their shopping carts as food?
  • What does society desire more? Convenient foods, natural foods or complex foods?
  • What is the ‘Clean Label’?
  • Look up Joanna Blythman. What is her profession? Which publication would you like to take a better look at, based on the title, presentation and topics?
  • “There were no more long lists of E-numbers, but in my opinion, they still tasted fake.” Do you think that producers of food items are secretly putting fake flavourings and synthetic dyes in their foods? Why do you think that?
  • Read the following statements, are these true or false?
    • People will pay more for natural-looking items.
    • Manufacturers put more natural ingredients in their foods.
    • Misleading consumers is a common thing in the food industry.
  • Give two reasons why the trades wouldn’t want to share their full ingredients lists with the world.
  • “We make flavourings for those you want to mask.” – Joanna Blythman. Translate this to Dutch and give us the meaning of the citation.
  • “Glucose syrup, which is quite controversial.” Why is glucose syrup, together with fructose syrups and corn syrups, controversial?
  • Try to convert this list of ingredients completely to the ingredients that factories use in the making of cakes. If you don’t change it, tell us why using data as support for your choice.
    • Sugar
    • Flour
    • Peanuts
    • Butter
    • Eggs
    • Full-fat milk
    • Cream
    • Coconut shavings
    • Vanilla Beans
  • What are vanilla beans made of? Where can you find the crops that produce vanilla beans?
  • What is the negative side of using real vanilla extract?
  • What are benchmarks?
  • Why did the author use the phrase “E is for additives” as the title of their book? What does it mean?
  • Make a chart in the following format. Show us what Treat does to produce synthetic flavourings based on real essences.
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  • What is the key natural molecule in orange flavourings?
  • It is said that labels have never been as clean and transparent as they are now. Do you agree, knowing that many of the ingredients have such complex names that barely anyone knows what they are?
  • Enzymes are allergenic? What reactions can enzymes cause when ingested by someone that reacts to them?
  • Why is inhalation of allergenics more effective than swallowing them?
  • Why do researchers worry for the safety of consumers?
  • Would you still trust the people that make your food after hearing this podcast?
  • What happened during the scandals of BSE and horsemeat? What was the main problem and who caused it?
  • Why would consumers value convenience over anything else?
  • Why is it condescending to say “People with low incomes should learn how to cook”?
  • After listening to this podcast, explain the title.

Answers:

  • She was looking for a pice of van Dijk. She was looking at the big chunky cheese, nice bread, grapes and apples on the painting what made her hungry.
  • The food we buy now is more conplex, they don’t want to paint them.
  • Natural food does society desire more.
  • It is a list of ingredients
  • She is an investigative food journalist and a writer. I want to look at what the effects are of eating food.
  • Yes i do, these just make your food more tasty. When your food is tasty you are going to buy it more. When you want to earn money you actually have to put it in your food.
  • 1= true,  2= false 3=true
  • There are some unhealthy ingredients in it and illegal ingredients.
  • We maken smaakstoffen voor degene die dit willen maskeren. It means hiding the ingredients who are not suposed to be in your food.
  • The meaning was that it was healthy but it actually isn’t.
  • Sugar=fruit sugars

Butter= oil instead of butter

Eggs= without the yellow part

Full-fat milk= half full milk

  • Vanilla beans are made of vanilla  sugar. You can find them especially in Mexico.
  • It is really expensive to get.
  • You can compare other products with it.
  • That the E-numbers are good a good thing.
  • Limon
  • I don’t agree, almost nobody knows what those products are or what those words mean.
  • Yes they are, they can cause an allergic reaction on people.
  • They go in more parts of your body all at once, it also goes faster then swallowing.
  • They haven’t done any research over the years.
  • Yes, it has been going good in many years now. There are no big problems.
  • In some products they put horse meat in it instead of beef.       .
  • Most of the time they are busy with something else.
  • For them it is more healthy and over the few years you spare more money with making it by yourself then giving it out to something what is more expensive for what you actually got.
  • They discussed about lot different sights of food or things who has to do with food.