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Cooking serves some very practical purposes; it makes food easier to chew, more digestable and less likely to cause illness. It also makes the food more flavourful. In bread, yeast makes the dough rise. This chemical reaction is called fermenting. Fermenting is also used in making wine. The yeast turns the sugars in the grapes for wine into alcohol and carbon dioxide when there is heat about 30C. The chemical equation for this fermenting is C6H12O6->2CO2+2C2H5OH. Cooking is the most important reaction because if we did not cook food such as meats we could get illnesses such as Salmonella, E. Coli and more. Some symptoms are nausea, vomiting, dehydration, fever, abdominal cramps and also diarrhea. Combustion is the main chemical reaction of cooking.

By: Miranda Clouthier && Alicia Ulriksen