Explores the science behind food, nutrition, and cooking. Includes twenty experiments for young readers to further understand the science at home.

Includes index.

Where it all starts -- What is food? -- Taste -- Trick your taste buds -- How smell works -- The world's smelliest fruit -- Why we love food -- Salt and other marvelous minerals -- Food and color -- Ways of cooking -- Microwaves -- Cooking without heat -- Unusual foods -- Vitamins and minerals -- Find iron in your cereal! -- Why does popcorn pop? -- The sticky science of gum -- Water is wonderful -- Fizzy cola -- Instant ice cream -- Drinks that glow! -- Exploding food! -- Cool cabbage -- Sour science -- Color-changing cabbage -- Invisible ink -- Inside an egg -- Naked eggs -- Brilliant bread -- What makes bread rise? -- Ripening bananas -- Good and bad mold -- When food is dangerous -- Hot stuff -- Why do unions make us cry? -- Edible slime -- Digestion: the journey -- Super saliva -- Rude food and explosive pee -- Amazing vegetables -- Fantastic fruit -- Eating meat -- Fake meats -- The foods of the future -- Would you eat a bug?