Exploring Products - Nano Food

TYPE: Short Activities
AUDIENCE: Ages 4 - Adult
TOPIC: Nanotechnology
In this activity, learners explore how nanotechnology may be used in food products.
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"Exploring Products - Nano Food" is a hands-on activity exploring how nanotechnology may be used in food products. Visitors investigate how the size of salt crystals may allow for lower sodium, but still full flavor foods.

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  • NanoDays Nano Food activity components including sign, guides, and activity materials.
  • Person exploring NanoDays Nano Food activity holding snap cube pieces in hand
  • NanoDays Nano Food activity components including sign, guides, and activity materials.
  • Person exploring NanoDays Nano Food activity holding snap cube pieces in hand

DESCRIPTION

"Exploring Products - Nano Food" is a hands-on activity exploring how nanotechnology may be used in food products. Visitors investigate how the size of salt crystals may allow for lower sodium, but still full flavor foods.

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OBJECTIVES

BIG IDEA

Nanotechnologies may improve existing products.

LEARNING GOALS

  • Nanotechnologies may improve existing products.

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Nanometer-sized things are very small, and often behave differently than larger things do.

Nanoscience, nanotechnology, and nanoengineering lead to new knowledge and innovations that weren't possible before.

Nanotechnologies—and their costs, utility, risks, and benefits—are closely interconnected with society and with our values.

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TYPE:
Educational Resources
AUDIENCE:
Ages 4 - Adult
LANGUAGES:
English Spanish
ADDITIONAL TOPICS: Engineering and Technology Nanotechnology Life Sciences Health and Medicine Societal Topics Food and Cooking
KIT: Purple NanoDays logo - the Biggest Event for the Smallest Science Browse kit
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Credits

YEAR CREATED
2015
PROJECT
OWNING INSTITUTION

Sciencenter

FUNDING

Developed for the NISE Network with funding from the National Science Foundation under Award Numbers 0532536 and 0940143. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this product are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Foundation.

PERMISSIONS

Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US).
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