{"id":21986,"date":"2017-07-05T22:42:32","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T22:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=21986"},"modified":"2017-07-05T22:42:32","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T22:42:32","slug":"biology-lifestyle-food-preservation-by-irradiation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/biology-lifestyle-food-preservation-by-irradiation\/","title":{"rendered":"Biology, Lifestyle:  food preservation by irradiation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Tutoring biology, you might be asked about food irradiation.  The tutor briefly talks about it.<\/h1>\n<p>Food irradiation is a preservation method that exposes food to radiation to kill organisms that might cause spoilage.<\/p>\n<p>A question I had was, &#8220;Why doesn&#8217;t irradiation damage the nutrients in food?&#8221;  From reading, I&#8217;ve surmised that the radiation separates the organisms&#8217; DNA into building blocks, rendering it useless (so that they mostly die or just can&#8217;t reproduce).  However, those building blocks are still useful as raw materials to whoever consumes the food &#8211; that&#8217;s as I understand, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Food irradiation has been an accepted technique for decades; the US space program has used irradiated food since the 1970s.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/uw-food-irradiation.engr.wisc.edu\/Facts.html\">uw-food-irradiation.engr.wisc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutoring biology, you might be asked about food irradiation. The tutor briefly talks about it. Food irradiation is a preservation method that exposes food to radiation to kill organisms that might cause spoilage. A question I had was, &#8220;Why doesn&#8217;t &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/biology-lifestyle-food-preservation-by-irradiation\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Biology, Lifestyle:  food preservation by irradiation<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,181,458],"tags":[2393],"class_list":["post-21986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology","category-lifestyle","category-technology","tag-does-food-irradiation-damage-nutrients"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21986"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21990,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21986\/revisions\/21990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}