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Understanding Food Browning Reactions: The Delicious Chemistry of Browning

This four-page worksheet introduces the Maillard reaction and caramelization, explaining how heat, sugars, amino acids, temperature, and pH affect food browning.

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This four-page worksheet introduces the Maillard reaction and caramelization, explaining how heat, sugars, amino acids, temperature, and pH affect food browning. Students observe evidence, read informational text, identify keywords, complete a cause-and-effect diagram, and compare browning processes.

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  • Students will explain the Maillard reaction and caramelization.
  • Students will identify factors that affect browning reactions.
  • Students will describe how browning changes food color, texture, flavor, and aroma.
  • Students will compare the Maillard reaction with caramelization.