The Properties of Aspartame

For decades, companies have been marketing their products as cheaper and better for the consumer. With beverage companies, every company was trying to make the best drinks and, when it came the time for their drinks to be “healthier,” competition rose. For decades now, these companies competed [...]

Artificial sweetener is a sugar substitute that contains less energy than sugar. What’s inside artificial sweetener is amino acids, aspartic acid and phenylalanine. Amino acids are chemical substances that are found in plants and animals to make protein. Aspartic acid is also an amino acid which [...]

Sugar is bad for you, right? Sugar has a lot of calories and makes you fat! This Thanksgiving and holiday season millions of Americans will cut back on pies, cookies, ice cream, and so on to avoid sugar. In a desperate attempt to avoid this excessive sugar intake, many Americans will eat foods [...]

“Can I order a double cheeseburger, large fries, and a large Diet Coke?” I hear this request at fast food restaurants nearly every time I am in line. The irony of washing down a calorically dense meal with a NutraSweet-flavored bubbly liquid makes me wonder why they do not just order regular soda. [...]

Professor. Manandhar Glycolysis and Beriberi One of the important cofactors necessary for the activity of the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex is thiamine pyrophosphate (TPP). TPP is derived from the vitamin thiamine, also called vitamin B 1. The function of TPP in the pyruvate dehydrogenase [...]

The argument for genetically modified food being legal has been going on for years now. Genetically modified food is essentially food being grown and produced using DNA modification. These modifications are made by transferring the genes of the food item into another organism. Unfortunately, this [...]

Christopher WillnerProfessor Curran ENC 110227 January, 2018Lobsters: Eat Them or Leave Them? In David Foster Wallace’s essay, “Consider the Lobster”, Wallace argues that animal suffering (specifically lobsters) is a complicated and uncomfortable issue. However, even given the [...]

Peer pressure concerns the parent of every teenager. Peer pressure can lead to drug abuse and can too lead to others risky behaviors such as eating disorders. Bulimia Nervosa refer to a psychological as well as life threatening eating disorder defined by the ingestion of abnormally large amount of [...]

Palatability refers to observations of a food’s taste, smell, and texture. It is an important food trait because, pets must be eager to eat acceptable quantities of the food to satisfy their daily calorie and nutrient needs. Unpalatable foods will be vetoed, irrespective of the quality of their [...]