Where does your food come from? Michael Ferguson Cedartown High School 2012

Learning Goal -Students will make real-world connection with how foods are processed. -Students will define processed foods -Students will define whole foods and organic food. Let’s start with a short quiz……

1. Where does sausage come from? A. B. C.

2. Where does chocolate come from? A. B. C.

3. Where does butter come from? A. B. C.

4. Where do pickles come from? A. B. C.

5. Where do buffalo wings come from? A. B. C.

6. Where does the filling inside an Oreo cookie come from? A. B. C.

7. Where does cheese come from? A. B. C.

Note to me: Read the true and false questions (8 -15)aloud

8. Dang Straight or Bull Manure: One of the ingredients of the taco meat at Taco Bell and the chili at Wendy’s is sand. True – Silicon Dioxide What it is: Also known as silica, it's most often present as quartz or sandquartz or sand

9. Dang Straight or Bull Manure: Duck feathers and human hair is used to make cookie dough and some bread. True – L-Cysteine What it is: An amino acid made from human hair or duck feathers – often labeled only as “dough conditioner” – used to improve texture in many bread products – can be made synthetically, but more expensive

10. Dang Straight or Bull Manure: Raspberry flavored gum and soft drinks, as well as vanilla ice cream contain an ingredient made from something that comes out of a beaver’s anus. TRUE – Castoreum – What it is: Extract from beaver perineal glandsbeaver perineal glands – Otherwise known as anal secretions from a beaver’s Perineal gland, is a common FDA approved food additive…..as well as perfume. When castoreum is mixed with urine it creates a scent that beavers use to track where they have been.

11. Dang Straight or Bull Manure: Bugs are used to make Skittles and Jellybeans. True – Shellac What it is: Made from crushed insect cocoons of a bug that is native to Thialand – creates the shiny glaze on the outside of candies. – sometimes listed as "confectioner's glaze" on the ingredient label.

12. Dang Straight or Bull Manure: Certain types of Starbuck’s coffee is made from coffee beans that are picked out of cat poop. TRUE – Sumatra – Dark Blend A jungle cat that is only native to Sumatra eats the berries from the coffee plant. The intestines digest the fruit surround the seed, and then the seed, which is the coffee bean is passed. Somatra villagers harvest it.

13. True or False Shredded cheese contains saw dust. TRUE –Cellulose, found in wood pulp, is used to keep the shreds from clumping together

14. Dang Straight or Bull Manure: Burnt cow bones are used to make sugar white TRUE – Bone Char What it is: Charred cattle bonescattle bones – natural sugar is brown, but white foods seem more “pure” to consumers. Becoming less common – ammonium sulfate, or ammonia, is used similarly in white breads to bleach the color and improve texture.

15. What federal organizations determine what foods are safe for Americans to eat? A. FDA B. USDA C. BOTH

What worries you most about the food you eat?