WELCOME TO FST10

Gary Smith, PhD (created by Gerald F. Russell, PhD)

Department of Food Science & Technology

FST 10 Students This Class is Very Full

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So, PLEASE look at the middle of your row If there is an empty seat, please shift over Only then put backpacks and stuff on the floor The Fire Marshall is adamant
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You may not sit in the aisles

FST10 GMS/GFR 2013

FST10 GMS/GFR 2013

The Course Syllabus and Slides are on SmartSite

FST 10 Fall Quarter 2013 Syllabus
Food Science, Folklore & Health FST 10 is a General Education Course in SciEng and SocSci. Lectures are T&R, 9:00-10:20 AM in SciLec 123 Instructors: Gary Smith (gmsmith@ucdavis.edu) Text: (Recommended) Other readings: Lecture slides or notes: Office Hours:
DATE 26-Sept 1-Oct 3-Oct 8-Oct 10-Oct 15-Oct 22-Oct 24-Oct 29-Oct 31-Oct 5-Nov 7-Nov 12-Nov 14-Nov

On Food & Cooking: The Science & Lore of the Kitchen; (Revised) By Harold McGee Short readings will be posted on Class SmartSite Will be posted on SmartSite Will be posted on SmartSite, Chat Room will be available
TEXT READING posted on web posted on web

But first - some preliminaries

Administrative stuff !

LECTURE TOPIC Introduction and Course Overview, Food is A Brief History of Food: Health Food Movements Placebo, Nocebo and Hawthorn Effects Food & Culture: Conventional, Natural & Organic Foods Food & Culture: Obesity Midterm #1 Sugars, and sweeteners Starches, Pectins, Polysaccharides & Dietary Fiber Lipids: Animal and Plant Fats and Oils Proteins, Essential Amino Acids, Enzymes Midterm #2 Flavors & Beverages Fruits & Vegetables Natural Toxins in Foods Mushroom & Fungi

645-680 258; 541-42; 611-16; 296-97; 803-05 797-802; 18-21; 37-39; 183 805-809 652-63; 667-80 ?243-258; 261-271;132-133 ?243-258; 261-271; 132-33 246; 258-60

19-Nov Midterm #3 21-Nov Food-borne Infections and intoxications 26-Nov Fermentation, Preservation: pH, Temperature, Water Activity 3-Dec Milk and processed dairy foods 5-Dec Cultured dairy foods: cheeses, yogurt and buttermilk FINAL EXAM: Monday, 9 - December, 1:00PM, SciLec 123

125-127; 185; 260; 298-299; 771-76; 797-802 7-44; 45-67

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INSTRUCTIONAL HELP Teaching Assistants

These folks are your first-line of defense against a bad grade!
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Academic Probation?
Of course you dont have to tell me but it is to your advantage to let me know if you are on academic probation
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Please visit them during office hours so they dont get bored!
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Suthawan (Wan) Charoenprasert Lillian Franklin Yue (Kate) Guan Rebecca Johnson Xinyi (Christina) Song
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Send me a quick email and perhaps drop by my office so I know who you are If I know you have problems and find that you are struggling I can try to help you

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Dont wait until the day before the final to tell me Open a conversation with me NOW so we can keep you on track
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Subject: Re: FST10 Ringers Date: Monday, April 3, 2006 3:59 PM From: Sheila Harrington <slharrington@ucdavis.edu> To: Gerry Russell <gfrussell@ucdavis.edu> Conversation: FST10 Ringers The Code of Academic Conduct here at UC Davis exhorts students to "Be honest at all times" and to "Act fairly toward others." Cheating during an exam, plagiarizing, and working with other students when this has not been explicitly permitted by the instructor are all examples of academic misconduct that may result in disciplinary sanctions such as Probation, Deferred Separation, Suspension or Dismissal. Having another student take a test for you, or taking a test for another student, is considered to be the most serious type of academic misconduct. This is due to the fact that not only is it extremely dishonest behavior, but it is also extremely unfair to other students. As a result, having a "ringer" take a test for you, or acting as a ringer yourself, is a violation of the Code that can result in Suspension or Dismissal from the University, even if the student had no previous incidents of academic misconduct. For more information about UC Davis's Code of Academic Conduct, please visit the SJA web pages: http://sja.ucdavis.edu/

FST 10 Office Hours

TA office hours will be held in RMI; Time TBA Smith, 3208 RMI South, by appointment A chatroom will be open on SmartSite (anytime!)

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Sheila Harrington Student Judicial Affairs Officer University of California, Davis

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FST 10 and GE Requirements

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FST10 is a GE Course
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Lecture notes will be posted on the class website

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Announcements, grades, reading assignments, interesting articles, web-links But, this is NOT and on-line class

A GE course that explores the Science of Food and contrasts it to historical and modern folklore about foods
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You will learn some science about foods

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FST 10 is a General Education (GE) Course Part of the GE experience is learning to take notes
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Print out slides Take notes Summarize everything & be sure it makes sense Ask questions
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FST10 A Science class

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FST10 A Science class

So, if you have not had many science classes, some of this material may get covered more quickly than youre used to. But dont worry, its Lower Division and Ill go at an appropriate pace. Just for Fun, lets look at a few clips from old cult classic SciFi movie and its humor about scientists...
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This Course is NOT About:

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This Course is NOT About:

Agricultural Food Production Geopolitics and Food Problems ! ~ 850 million people worldwide are malnourished ! Poverty is the main reason
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Agricultural Food Production

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This Course is NOT About:

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This Course is NOT About:

Agricultural Food Production Geopolitics and Food Problems Cooking Nutrition or Nutritional States of Disease

Agricultural Food Production Geopolitics and Food Problems Cooking (well, a little)

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FST 10 Course Textbook

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Harold McGee Author

Author: Harold McGee On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Publisher: Macmillan, 1984; Scribner, 2004

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Anatomy of a squid mantle to how to whip egg whites and make a proper FST10souffle! GMS/GFR 2013

Do you need the textbook?

Quizzes & Exam Formats

Exams will cover materials presented in lecture and reinforced by material from the book About 75% of material in lectures is covered somewhere in the book; 25% is not there
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So, the book will reinforce and answer many questions you might have about lecture material It is a fun book to own and is relatively cheap ~$14.95
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MC & T/F questions marked on Scantrons Questions are timed and projected on the screen ! Therefore, there are no printed (paper) exams No time to agonize over questions give it your best shot and move on... Doing it this way saves ~ 500 x 20 = 10,000 sheets of paper So, the exam questions will look like this!
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1)

The textbook for this class is called?

2) Name a food that can be described as "empty calories".

A. Strawberries B. Refined sugar C. Brown rice D. Water E. Fertile eggs

A. B. C. D.

On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Food, Cooking and Health Food, a Basic Science There is no textbook for this class

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3) Which food has antibiotic properties?

4) Which food folklore is TRUE?

A. Egg whites B. Oysters C. Garlic E. Nutmeg F. Meat from commercial feeder lots

A. Nutmeg is a hallucinogen B. Green potatoes are always safe to eat C. Cooking/canning food destroys all vitamins D. Honey is safe natural sugar infants
Warning: Large doses of 7.5 g or more are dangerous, potentially inducing convulsions, palpitations, nausea, eventual dehydration, and generalized body pain

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GRADING

Exams
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There is a total of 300 points for this course

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10 point Quiz (bonus added to your score) 4 exams, lowest score is dropped 300 points from midterms

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There are 4 midterms, each worth 100 points ! 50 MC or T/F questions You may drop you lowest grade ! No earlys ! No lates ! No make-ups ! No medicals excuses needed ! No excuses No grading on curves
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Exams

Course Grading

All grading is done by computers; but you should check the exams if something does not seem right You have 1 week to ask for a re-grade of an exam If you wait longer than this it is too late

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About Note Taking in FST10

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Is this Class an Easy A?

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One of your greatest resources of information for when studying for an exam is an organized set of notes Come to class prepared
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Yes, as long as you:

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1. COME TO CLASS 2. TAKE GOOD NOTES 3. READ THE BOOK AND CROSS REFERENCE YOUR NOTES 4. STUDY FOR THE TESTS

Take simple notes

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i.e. have a pencil and notebook or laptop and slides write down just the key concepts

When you read the book, have your notes open and jot down anything you may have missed or need to clarify
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Most frequently asked question...

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Email Protocol
There are ~500 of you and only one of me ! I will not be able to read individual emails regarding general questions about the course ! Get general questions answered by the TAs If you have a problem please send me an email with FST10 STUDENT PROBLEM in the header and I will respond. Use the MailTool on SmartSite To set up an appointment write FST10 STUDENT APPOINTMENT REQUEST in the header ! I will always make time to help you
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Q: Im number 7 on the wait-list; what are my chances of getting in? We will see what develops after the lecture today

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Whats the Course About?

Warning
Do not be shocked and be prepared for the F-word in this course

Title: Food Science, Folklore & Health So were going to talk about! Food Science Folklore Health

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The F Word
For heavens sake, if youre not having Fun in this class then,
Please drop the course!
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Food Science Folklore Health

We are now going to go through the very briefest outline of what you can expect from the lecture topics throughout the quarter!
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To help you decide...

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FST 10 Lecture Topics

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FST 10 Lecture Topics

Hawthorne, placebo & nocebo effects; what food represents

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Introduction and Overview: Food Science, Folklore & Health What IS Food? "Health Food Movement;" Conventional, Natural & Organic Foods

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FST 10 Lecture Topics

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Midterm 1, October 10
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Food & Culture Contemporary Issues (Obesity in America) Natural and Organic food

50 questions On lectures 1 - 4 Bring a scantron and a picture ID

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The Chemicals We Eat

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Yep, All is Chemistry (but very simple)

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Some modern Folklore: Thinking rationally about Food Sugars and sweeteners Complex Carbohydrates Lipids: Fats and Oils Proteins
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Sweet-tasting things: Sugars, natural & synthetic sweeteners

The macronutrients
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FST 10 Lecture Topics

FST 10 Lecture Topics

Starches, pectin, polysaccharides, dietary fiber

Animal and plant fats and oils; energy considerations & labeling cis & trans fats; essential fatty acids; eicosenoids

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FST10 GMS/GFR 2013

FST 10 Lecture Topics

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Midterm 2, October 31
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Animal and plant proteins Essential & limiting amino acids Enzymes

50 questions On lectures 5 - 8 Bring a scantron and a picture ID

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FST 10 Lecture Topics

Fruits & Vegetables

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Flavors & Beverages stimulants; coffee, tea, chocolate

Fruits, Vegetables, Grains and Health Phytochemicals & Antioxidants

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FST 10 Lecture Topics

FST 10 Lecture Topics

Naturally- occurring toxicants and poisons in foods; phytotoxins and ichtyotoxicology

Mushrooms and fungi; nutritional quality, hallucinogens, safety and toxicity

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Midterm 3, November 19
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FST 10 Lecture Topics

50 questions On lectures 5 - 8 Bring a scantron and a picture ID

How to get sick from your food: Food safety ! food poisonings ! food intoxications ! infections

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FST 10 Lecture Topics

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FST 10 Lecture Topics

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How NOT to get sick from your food: Preservation ! Temperature ! pH ! Aw ! Fermentations ! (and stay away from Nat Tran)

Milk & dairy products; fresh & processed dairy foods; Lactose intolerance

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FST 10 Lecture Topics

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Midterm 4, Monday, Dec. 9

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Cultured dairy foods, yogurt, buttermilk, etc. probiotics, prebiotics Cheeses

During thye Final Exam period 50 questions On lectures 5 - 8 Bring a scantron and a picture ID

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If this class isnt for you...

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You can leave now (if you want to) To make room for other students Be sure to drop the class on Sysweb Otherwise... Lets get started

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