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Features
Focus on Food
Bugs for Lunch 21
Do You Suffer from Portion Distortion? 66
Making Changes for the Better 86
Avoiding Foodborne Illness When You Eat Out 181
The Juicy Facts 294
Are Potatoes Really Fattening? 308
Herbs and Spices 312
Flower Petals in My Salad! 332
Pizza-aah! 369
Hungry People 374
Nondairy Products 389
Sushi and Sashimi 417
Chocolate, 1,000 Years of Delight 452
Science in the Kitchen
The Five Senses 24
A Journey Through Your Digestive Tract 44
Sweet Tooth 53
Protecting Stored Foods 100
Investigating Microwaves 118
Growing Bacterial Colonies 168
Is the Earth Becoming a Giant Garbage Heap? 218
Lights, Flavor, Potato Chips! 240
Biotechnology 305
Munchy, Crunchy Vegetables 311
Mixing the Unmixable? 330
Making Muffins 371
Louis Pasteur 380
Did You Know... 425
Cooking Up Some Eggs! 431
Health Alert
The Heart Beat 32
Herbal Supplements: Healthful or Harmful? 55
Science Solves Vitamin C Mystery! 288
Food Sensitivities 387
Seafood Toxins! 412
Math in the Kitchen
Fat Math 75
Going Metric! 132
Measurements Count 199
Computing Unit Prices 233
Timing Is Everything! 249
Estimating Tips 279
Computing Cost Per Serving 400
Comparing Cookie Cost and Appeal 451
Kitchen Basics
Saving Energy in the Kitchen 105
Buying Cookware and Bakeware 142
How Do Accidents Happen? 148
Every Drop Counts! 177
New Technology
Smart Kitchen 103
Looking into the Future of Microwave
Ovens 121
Electronic Pasteurization 167
Aquaculture 419