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Chemistry of Natural Products II
FCH-MC_CHPL2Acad. year: 2024/2025
The course Food Chemistry II focuses on minor components of human food. This is e.g. astrigent (bitter) substances, vitamins, colorants, flavorings, flavor and fragrance and additive substances. Students will become familiar with the structure and chemical properties of these minor ingredients. And in addition, with food commodities, which are the richest source of these. Maximum emphasis will, however, be placed on the study of reactions and changes, which the minor components are lieable to in technological processes of manufacturing and storage.
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For successful completion of the course requires detailed knowledge of the basic components of human food, i.e. proteins, fats and saccharides.
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
The exam has a written and an oral part.
The written part includes questions focused on background of lecture.
Conditions for qualify in oral exam is successfuly complete of the written test. The oral part of the exam will demonstrate degree of acquire of the lecture.
Attendance at lectures is not compulsory, but is recommended.
Aims
The objective of the course is to show students food as a complex of chemical compounds (mostly eatable and palatable) of specific features. The objective is to teach students to deduce appropriate conclusions from chemical features of these compounds. Students will apply this conclusions on all food technological operations.
Students will obtain the basic overview on important minority food ingredients, mainly on chemical properties of this ingredients, on structure and on reactivity.
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