In chemistry and Humanities, we went into depth about food ethics and the chemistry of cooking. In humanities, we watched many documentaries about farmers and their food ethics, we read the "Omnivore's Dilemma", and we found out about our own food ethics and wrote a personal essay about it. In chemistry, we learned about how chemistry is applied to food. How the ingredients in food affect the way it sits, ways to change the variable and how it affects the taste, texture, etc. We worked on different types of foods. We made lemonade in class, mixing in baking soda and citric acid to find the "perfect" lemonade, and then we did an interactive taste test where students make food and bring it for people to try and decipher which one was the best "brownie". For the food test, I made strawberry jam. This project made me notice how much food is actually wasted, which then shaped my food ethic. I think that it's absurd how much food we waste, and we don't even think about it. We have wasted food so much, that it has become an involuntary action. I noticed that I wasted a lot of food, and I am now trying to reduce that waste. My main take away is that most processed food is made out of corn. I didn't really think about what it was made out of, let alone think it was made out corn. It was neat to know because a lot of what we eat in today's world is processed food. Fast food, food from the store that comes in a bag, etc. It's good to know what we are putting into our bodies, and learning about how it affects us. Now that I did this project and learned so many new things about food, I think totally differently about it. When I am at work and they are advertising the food, making it look so good, I just think that it looks actually disgusting. The food in real life is covered in grease, even the buns. It doesn't appeal to me as much as it did before this project.