A Revolution in the World of Sour Candies
Across the market, dozens of sour flavored candies are sold. Popular brand names such as Warheads and Sour Patch Kids are just part of everyday candies that society consumes pretty regularly, and they love the cringing and tongue biting sensation each of these sweets give. The question is how can we make these candies even more sour, possibly by using new ingredients? After gathering information and doing research, it is shown that oxalic acid could be a new ingredient to make candies sour, and a carefully constructed candy wrapper can actually make a candy seem more sour.
First, it is important to understand how popular sour candies give off that sour tasting sensation. Acids, which are chemical substances that are below 7.0 on the pH scale, create the sourness in various popular sour candies. These substances give off H+ ions, which triggers the brain to send messages to the taste buds, which consist of 30-100 specialized cells, allowing the human body to feel the sensation of sourness. (Hartel 167). But something that is not well known is that the structure of an acid comes into play when determining the sourness of an acid. According to Neta, Johanningsmeier, and McFeeters, “It was recognized that sour taste could not be explained solely on the basis of hydrogen ions. It was clear that organic acids could also
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Sour candies make up a large portion of the candy industry, and using new methods and innovations can help improve the quality of these candies. If the use of oxalic acid and carefully constructed candy wrappers are incorporated in the creation of sour candies, the sourness and quality of these candies will increase as they both influence how humans taste and feel the sour sensation. This is important because finding the answer will not only increase the quality of sour candies around the world, but also revolutionize the world of
CANDIDE By Voltaire Throughout Candide the author, Voltaire, demonstrates the character’s experiences in a cruel world and his fight to gain happiness. In the beginning, Candide expects to achieve happiness without working towards his goal and only taking the easy way out of all situations. However, by the end of the book the character realized that to achieve happiness a lot of work, compromises, and sacrifices are necessary. Candide is a person of privilege who began life in the Castle of Westphalia.
Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire’s novella, Candide, incorporates many themes, yet concentrates a direct assault on the ideas of Leibniz and Pope. These two well-known philosophers both held the viewpoint that the world created by God was the best of all possibilities, a world of perfect order and reason. Pope specifically felt that each human being is a part of God’s great and all knowing plan or design for the world.
Europe saw a time of literature works of great and broadly inclusive significance. The period, commonly known as the Age of Enlightenment, saw intellectual movements incite the rise of the French Revolution through philosophical ideas. These group of intellectuals included Moliere and Voltaire, two professional writers who used satirical approaches in their works to express their idea for challenging the absolute right to rule and promote ideas for the annulment of the social class system. The purpose of this paper is to provide an analysis into the life and works of the two writers.
Candide is the illegitimate nephew of a German baron. He grows up in the baron’s castle under the tutelage of the scholar Pangloss, who teaches him that this world is “the best of all possible worlds.” Candide falls in love with the baron’s young daughter, Cunégonde. The baron catches the two kissing and expels Candide from his home. On his own for the first time, Candide is soon conscripted into the army of the Bulgars. He wanders away from camp for a brief walk, and is brutally flogged as a deserter. After witnessing a horrific battle, he manages to escape and travels to Holland.
Candide Wealth and great materialistic possession brings happiness and success to most people’s lives. Although wealth does not always bring happiness, El Dorado was one society where all it’s inhabitants lived lives full of success and happiness. In Candide, wealth proved to guarantee a person a step forward in life and some sense of freedom. Sometimes when one lives in an environment consisting of total equality, one may prefer to leave and go to a different place where they would be considered superior and everyone else inferior to them. The people of El Dorado were so wealthy that they abused the things that they possessed that others would cherish. The children proved this when they were playing at quoits covered with tattered garments of the richest brocade. It is obvious to see that they were so rich that the quoits did not have any significant meaning to them. We were able to see this when upon having to return back to school they left the quoits on the ground along with their other playthings. Candide was surprised to find out that an adult schoolmaster would do the exact same when given these quoits which consisted of gold and precious stones. Candide realized that these children must have been those of a king and he said, " The king’s children in this country must have an excellent education, since they are taught to show such a contempt for gold and precious stones." (49). Another way in which we saw that they were very wealthy was the fact that the common pebbles of their highways were large gold pieces, houses were built of silver and gold, the antechamber was incrusted with rubies and emeralds. I feel that this was not very appropriate. Just because they were wealthy does not mean that the money should be wasted in such a way as to build a highway of these expensive stones, when it could be substituted with a much less expensive material. El Dorado was a place where everyone was extremely happy and satisfied with what they possessed. This place was seen as heaven on earth. It represented a cultural wealth. Everyone here was a priest and priests were considered to be pleasant happy beings. We clearly saw that Cacambo and Candide were very satisfied with their stay here when they said, "Possibly this is that part of the globe where everything is right for there must certainly be some such place." (50). They ...
Candide is a humorous, far-fetched tale by Voltaire satirizing the optimism accepted by the philosophers of the Age of Enlightenment. Candide looks for true happiness, and his ultimate acceptance of life’s disappointments. He grew up in the Castle of Westphalia and was taught by the greatest philosopher of the province and the whole world, Dr. Pangloss. Dr. Pangloss taught Candide that everything that happens is for the best. Candide is exiled from the castle because of his love for the Baron’s daughter, Cunegonde. He then sets out to different places in the hope of finding her and achieving total happiness. Candide knew thought he knew that everything happened for the best because the greatest philosopher taught him that, but everyone around him did not accept that theory.
Human beings are selfish in nature, we think about our needs and wants and how we can advance in society without taking into consideration the well-being of others. Sometimes it takes a little push from an outside source to put things into perspective. In Voltaire's Candide and Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal, humans are depicted in this same light, as being greedy and vulgar. The author's intentions are to depict amoral ideas in order to shock readers into questioning their morals. The very fact that the authors believe that their audience can be shocked into moral positions demonstrates their optimistic viewpoints.
Throughout the story of Candide, the author Voltaire uses many of the characters to portray important things in life. The two characters that Voltaire used the most were Candide and Pangloss. Voltaire used these two characters to represent a particular idea or folly that he had about the world. In the story Candide, Voltaire is always portraying his own ideas by using the characters to illustrate his own ideas. Candide and Pangloss represent the main idea of the story, which is Voltaire’s folly of optimism. Even though they both represent the main idea of the story Candide and Pangloss have many similarities and differences.
This project looks at investigating decay, and the rate of decay on teeth using different sugary substances to speed this process up. Obtaining human teeth were not as available as cat and dog teeth for this project, so cat and dog teeth, removed by a veterinarian during a routine dental procedure, will be used.
Chemical: Acids in foods and beverages such as citrus fruits, spices, wines and carbonated beverages; acids produced by acidogenic bacteria following carbohydrate exposure; acids from gastric regulation. (Wilkins, BS, RDH, DMD, 2013)
Kool-Aid, strawberry ice cream, and Doritos: What do these things have in common? Whether you realize it or not, many ordinary foods contain dyes. Some of the dyes are natural; others are synthetic. Is one better than the other?
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The freshly squeezed citrus juices of Lemon,lime and orange were analysed through titration over the period of 2 weeks. Initially the lime juice was found to be slightly more acidic than the other juices followed by lemon juice and then orange juice since it is known that usually lime is more acidic than lemon and orange. It was hypothesised that the acidity of each juice will increase or decrease after the period of two weeks depending upon the sugar content of that citrus fruit that the juice is extracted from. The acidity of the juice with the highest sugar level will gradually increase over the period of time since sugar contribute to the the fermentation of the citrus juice to lactic acid. The hypothesis was shown to be correct;however
Dental disease, caries are the warning signals for other health complications and development of diabetes, obesity and coronary heart disease. Undernutrition condition associated with high intake of sugar may lead to risk of dental caries. Dental caries affect people physically as well pschycologically and influences how they grow, enjoy their life, look, speak, taste food and socialize themselves. During severe caries they experience pain, discomfort, eating and sleep disturbance, loss of school days and costs of treatment. There is a wealth of evidence that sugars are undoubtedly the most important factors in the development of dental caries. Another factor of dental caries occur because of demineralization of enamel and dentine by organic acids formed by bacteria in dental plague through the anaerobic metabolism of sugar obtained for the diet. Organic acid increased the solubility of hydroxyapatite (main inorganic constituent of tooth enamel and bone) in the dental hard tissues and demineralization occurs. Saliva is supersaturated with calcium and phosphorus at PH 7 promotes remineralization. If the oral PH varies high in for sufficient time then complete remineralization of enamal may occur.If the acid challenge is too high however demineralization dominates then enamel become more porous and a carious lesion will developed. Frequency
Emulsions are important in food science. Not only do they provide an important sensory aspect in many foods, but a functional one as well. From hollandaise to ice cream, getting hydrophobic and hydrophilic molecules to play nice with each other can be a difficult task. According to Modern Cuisine, it was previously thought that Hollandaise, a classic French emulsion of egg and butter, could only be made by letting butter drip from natural heat of the hand. Of course, modern science has taught us that, with the use of emulsifiers, these mystic mixtures can be created without the voodoo and magic once thought necessary. This paper will discuss emulsions as applied to hollandaise, chocolate, hot dogs and their characteristic pH, moisture content, shelf stability and quality of viscosity. An explanation of the chemical processes that occur between the raw ingredients of each food and the relationship between the structure and function of their components will be explained, as well as the importance of the chemical changes that take place during production. The characteristics that define these foods as emulsions will be compared and contrasted to further elucidate the mystery of the emulsion. Bon Appetite!