Bibliograph

Science you can eat, Stefan Gates

Type

Label

Science you can eat, Stefan Gates

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

resource.interestAgeLevel

Ages 7 to 9

resource.interestGradeLevel

Grades 2 to 4

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Science you can eat

Oclc number

1103607506

Responsibility statement

Stefan Gates

Summary

Explores the science behind food, nutrition, and cooking. Includes twenty experiments for young readers to further understand the science at home

Table Of Contents

Where it all starts -- What is food? -- Taste -- Trick your taste buds -- How smell works -- The world's smelliest fruit -- Why we love food -- Salt and other marvelous minerals -- Food and color -- Ways of cooking -- Microwaves -- Cooking without heat -- Unusual foods -- Vitamins and minerals -- Find iron in your cereal! -- Why does popcorn pop? -- The sticky science of gum -- Water is wonderful -- Fizzy cola -- Instant ice cream -- Drinks that glow! -- Exploding food! -- Cool cabbage -- Sour science -- Color-changing cabbage -- Invisible ink -- Inside an egg -- Naked eggs -- Brilliant bread -- What makes bread rise? -- Ripening bananas -- Good and bad mold -- When food is dangerous -- Hot stuff -- Why do unions make us cry? -- Edible slime -- Digestion: the journey -- Super saliva -- Rude food and explosive pee -- Amazing vegetables -- Fantastic fruit -- Eating meat -- Fake meats -- The foods of the future -- Would you eat a bug?

Target audience

pre adolescent

Classification