1. Imagine yourself eating a ham and cheese sandwich. What steps take place with regard to digesting the sandwich?
a) Make sure that the students can distinguish between mechanical and chemical digestion.
b) What role does HCL play with regard to protein digestion and bacteria?
c) What are the roles of the small and large intestines?
2. What does food safety and technology have to do with me?
a) Food spoilage. How and why does it occur?
b) What are the four most important things when it comes to food safety?
c) Define organic foods and the process involved with becoming a certified organic farm.
3. What government agency is responsible for monitoring and setting the standards for organic foods and what are their standards? For instance, can anyone claim their product is organic? How can we be sure a food is organic? What do they mean when they say a food is organic? Do you buy organic foods? Some people say organic foods cost more.......why would that be?
Mechanical digestion begins right from the time we start chewing the food. All the grinding and chewing of food which transform the sandwich into tiny bits is a part of mechanical digestion. Later muscular walls of your esophagus, stomach, and intestines continue mechanical digestion by pushing the food along the
