British Food Fortnight is coming up, it’s from 22nd September to the 7th October and will celebrate all foody things that emanate from the UK. As anyone who’s looked through the Planet Science Diner or tried out the new Smoothie Operator game knows there’s a lot of science to scoffing. So here’s some of it.
Get all the answers right and you’ll go into the draw to win a Horrible Science Disgusting Digestion Pack. Y – UK!
Wash your Hands…
Napkin over your best jeans…
GO!
- Which of these is a common garden pest seemingly formed of only a stomach and foot?
- A study by the British Cheese Board into whether eating cheese before bed gave you bad dreams concluded that 85% of women in one group had the most bizarre dreams after eating which British cheese?
- The eels eaten in the UK as 'jellied eels' were born in the seas north of the Caribbean. Adults swim for 5 months from European waters to the Sargasso Sea and the young are carried back to Europe in which warm water ocean current?
- Wine grown on the North Downs in Surrey benefits from the same underlying rock as the champagne region in France. What calcium-rich rock is this?
- Cornish clotted cream contains a minimum butterfat content of what?
- Laverbread in Wales and nori in Japan is made from the seaweed porphyra umbilicalis. Despite growing on rocks at the water's edge, its colour enables it to absorb, and photosynthesise, the type of light which penetrates into deep water. What colour is the seaweed?
- Many traditional British meat recipes require offal. Sweetbreads are one possible option & which insulin-producing organ can these be made from?
- What makes the holes in the top of a crumpet?
- Which of these fruits contain salicylates - the active ingredient in aspirin.
- Blackcurrants and apples freeze very well while strawberries and cherries tend to turn to mush when defrosted. Fruits that freeze well have lots of a certain substance in their cell walls. What is this substance?
