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What are examples of edible fungi?

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Mushrooms such as underground truffles, & Agaricus bisporus (button and portobellos)

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What are mushrooms?

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Fruiting bodies that are a source of proteins and minerals

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What are examples of edible algae?

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  • Seaweed
  • Red algae – Porphyra (nori)
  • Brown algae – Macrocystis (alginate, a thickener)
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Why are most bacteria unedible?

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Nucleic acid too concentrated

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What is the one bacteria that is edible?

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The cyanobacterium Spirulina

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What are ferment foods?

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Food products modified biochemically by microbial growth

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What are 3 reasons for fermenting food?

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1) To preserve food by limiting growth of spoliage organisms & many pathogens
2) To improve digestibility (ex: breaking down lactose)
3) To add nutrients (ex: vitamins) and flavour molecules

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What is usually needed for traditional fermented foods?

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Indigenous flora (found naturally in food) or starter cultures (from a previous fermentation)

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What are the 5 major classes of fermentation reactions and what is an example of each?

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1) Homolactic acid (ex: yogurt)
2) Propionic acid (ex: swiss cheese)
3) Heterolactic acid (ex: kefir)
4) Ethanolic (ex: wine)
5) Alkaline (ex: Brie cheese)

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What happens in milk fermentation?

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  • Lactic acid fermentation with Lactobacillus & Streptococcus
  • Followed by rennet proteolysis, rendering casein insoluble
  • Cleaved peptides coagulate to form a semisolid curd
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What are the steps of cheese production?

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  • Milk is filtered and subjected to pasteurization
  • Fermenting microbes are added to a starter culture
  • Drop in pH and/or added rennet help denature the milk protein casein, which coagulates and precipitates out of solution (curds)
  • Solid curd is cut
  • Curd is lightly heat-treated
  • Pressed curd is shaped into a mold
  • Cheese is ripened or aged
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What is pickling?

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Fermentation in brine (high salt)

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How does pickling work?

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High salt selects for specific bacteria (Gram positive), sometimes starter cultures are used

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Which microorganisms are used for pickling?

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Pediococcus, Streptococcus, Lactobacillus, or Leuconostoc depending on the food and process

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What are 2 examples of fermented cabbage?

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Sauerkraut & kimchi

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What are 2 examples of fermented meats?

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Montreal smoked meat & genoa salami

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For what food is ethanolic fermentation used?

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Bread

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What microorganism is used in Baker’s yeast and Brewer’s yeast?

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Saccharomyces cerevisiae

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What is the reaction that takes place in ethanolic fermentation?

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Pyruvate –> ethanol + CO2

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What molecule causes bread to rise?

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CO2

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What does beer arise from?

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Alcoholic fermentation of grain

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What is the process of making beer?

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Barley grains are germinated, allowing enzymes to break down starch to maltose for yeast fermentation

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What is the primary sugar that is fermented in the making of beer?

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Maltose

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What produces some of the special flavours in beer?

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Secondary products, such as long-chain alcohols and esters

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What does wine derive from?
Alcoholic fermentation of fruit, usually grapes
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What is the process of making wine?
- Grapes are crushed to release juices - For white wine, the skin is removed - Yeast ferments sucrose, fructose, and glucose to ethanol - Red wine & some whites undergo malolactic fermentation by bacteria which converts malate to lactate plus CO2 reducing acidity
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Which microorganism is involved in malolactic fermentation?
Oenococcus oeni
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What can't a starter culture be developed for the making of chocolate?
The fermentation involves a succession of populations
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What is food spoilage?
Microbial changes that render a product obviously unfit or unpalatable for consumption
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What is food contamination/poisoning?
Presence of pathogens in food
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What causes dairy products to be soured?
Excessive fermentation
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What causes dairy products to be bittered?
Bacterial proteolysis
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How are meat and poultry products putrefied?
Decarboxylating bacteria which produce amines with noxious odors
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Why do seafoods spoil rapidly?
Because their unsaturated fatty acids rapidly oxidize
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How do plant foods spoil?
Excess growth of bacteria and molds, which can cause them to wilt, brown, and lose texture
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What are characteristics of Listeria monocytogenes
- Psychrotolerant bacterium - Invades cells of intestinal epithelium - Causes listeriosis
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What are 6 physical means of preservation?
- Dehydration & lyophilization - Controlled or modified atmosphere - Pasteurization - Canning - Ionizing radiation - Refrigeration & freezing
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What are 3 chemical means of preservation?
- Organic acids - Esters - Other organic compounds
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What is industrial microbiology?
The commercial exploitation of microbes, includes food production & preservation
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Industrial microbiology includes the production of...
- Vaccines, pharmaceuticals, & therapeutics - Industrial solvents & biodegradable plastics - Genetically modified plant & animal cells
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What is type 1 diabetes?
Beta-islet cells are destroyed by immune system
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What is type 2 diabetes?
Insulin receptors on cells are desensitized to insulin
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Who discovered the mechanism for diabetes?
Frederick Banting
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When was insulin first produced and by whom?
In 1921 by Frederick Banting & Charles Best
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Why can't animal insulin be used in humans?
Many patients form antibodies against the foreign proteins, which causes inflammation & allergic responses
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What is the structure of insulin?
- 51 amino acids | - Two chains -- A & B held together by disulfide bridges
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How can human insulin be manufactured?
- Extract and purify A & B chains - A & B chains connected via disulfide bridges - Results in pure synthetic human insulin
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What kind of bacteria reduces the spread of pancreatic cancer?
Radioactive
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Why is pancreatic cancer considered the "silent killer"?
Cancer spreads before primary tumor detected
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What does lysteria monocytogenes have to do with pancreatic cancer?
When injected into tumor-bearing mice, bacteria selectively delivered to metastases where it spread cell-to-cell without being eliminated by the immune system
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What does turbidimetric measures of bacterial growth assume?
That cells remain evenly distributed in their liquid growth medium
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When cells remain evenly distributed in their growth medium, what is optical density proportional to?
The log of the number of cells in suspension
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What does sessile mean?
Microorganisms grow attached to a surface
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What does planktonic mean?
Microorganisms live in a liquid medium and float around
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What can sessile cells grow into?
Biofilms
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What is an example of a biofilm in a human?
The "film" that develops on unbrushed teeth
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What is a biofilm?
An attached polysaccharide matrix containing embedded bacterial cells
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What are the 4 stages of biofilm formation?
- Reversible attachment of planktonic cells - Irreversible attachment of the same cells - Cell growth & production of polysaccharide - Further development to form a tenacious and nearly impenetrable mature biofilm
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What is necessary for initially forming a biofilm?
Flagella
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What are crucial to biofilm maturation?
Thin hairlike structures called type IV pili
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What causes cystic fibrosis?
Development of a biofilm containing Pseudomonas aeruginosa
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What are benefits of biofilms to bacterial growth in nature?
- Protection from harmful chemicals - Barrier to grazing by protists - Prevents bacterial cells from being washed away into a less-favourable environment
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Why might humans want to manipulate their commensal bacteria?
To enhance the positive benefits of certain selected bacteria
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What are probiotics?
Intentionally ingested live microorganisms used to change or reestablish GI microflora

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