food science

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food science (uncountable)

  1. A branch of applied science concerned with food and its production.
    Synonym: bromatology
    • 2006, Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma, The Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 107:
      The power of food science lies in its ability to break foods down into their nutrient parts and then reassemble them in specific ways that, in effect, push our evolutionary buttons, fooling the omnivore's inherited food selection system.

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