TBomber: Math and Food project!!! Help please!!?
I need to present a project tomorrow in my college math class, What Is Mathematics, and I was hoping to relate math to food/cooking in a way that is more complicated that just “how many cups of flour do you need to double this recipe…” and other conversions. I am supposed to do this in a more open minded way, and I don’t wanna look like an idiot. So the question is really HOW ARE FOOD AND MATH RELATED?
Sorry if I wasn’t clear. I’m looking for a math project relating to food and cooking that doesn’t involve converting recipes,because that is too elementary for a college level course. I need a higher education level project!!!!
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Answer by claudius
there’s math in food but there’s no food in math.
If I understood your question correctly this is what I have in mind. Go to this link, it suggests making a recipe that you can convert all your basic measurements into either ratios or metric measurements. You of course will have to get the scale and do the actual math but here’s the idea. It’s pretty interesting if you’d like to go in and make a recipe that looks so uniquely different from others. Good luck!!Answer by Jeƒƒ Lebowski
One application of math and food is the diet problem. It uses Linear Programming to solve it.
The goal of the diet problem is to find the cheapest combination of foods that will satisfy all the daily nutritional requirements of a person. The problem is formulated as a linear program where the objective is to minimize cost and meet constraints which require that nutritional needs be satisfied. We include constraints that regulate the number of calories and amounts of vitamins, minerals, fats, sodium and cholesterol in the diet.
Go to the link below for details.
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