Discover the importance of chemistry in everyday eating experiences

How do beetles help to make certain sweets? Edible experiments provides a wealth of ideas based on chemistry and food to engage students and stimulate thinking about the relevance of chemistry.

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All tasting activities should take place outside of science labs, and there should be careful checking for allergies in all participants.

Part of our Edible Experiments series.

Acknowledgements

This resource was produced by Dr Joanna Buckley, University of Sheffield. It is also hosted on the University of Sheffield website.

Copyright University of Sheffield.

Edible experiments

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Discover the importance of chemistry in everyday eating experiences with this collection of edible experiments.