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Published: 14 July 2016
Authors:
- Fiona Dowling
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The effect of cooking on food - Flours

Food and Nutrition
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Resources to develop knowledge and understanding related to the working characteristics, functional and chemical properties of ingredients to achieve a particular result.

This unit contains introductory activities for flours and then goes on to investigate:

1. Which different flours can be used as sources of starch for thickening,

2. The effects of other ingredients (sugar, lemon juice) when making a cornflour based gel

3. What happens when a gelatinized gel is frozen.

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Flour
Starches
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Starter activities
Investigations

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