What is it about?
People worldwide consume drinks on a daily basis. It may be a glass of water, milk, soda, tea, or some other beverage to complement a meal or quench a thirst. Some drinks are nutritious, while others contain lots of sugar and calories. This activity provides an opportunity for students to design (create), make, and test their own drinks.
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Each team of at least two students will obtain, wash, analyze, and use their senses to characterize 10 different fruits, (oranges, lemons, pineapples, grapefruits, bananas, peaches, blueberries, strawberries, grapes, and coconuts) in terms of appearance, smell, taste, health, benefits, etc. (If some of these fruits are not available, substitute them with fruits of your own choice.) Then as the students to prepare some juice for each fruit using a juicer and a blender. Finally, have them design (create) their best tasting nutritious drink by combining specific amounts of one or more of their already prepared fruit juices. The problem proposed for the hands-on activity should be this: "What is the recipe for your best tasting nutritious drink?
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Dr. Dana M. Barry in Clarkson University, one of my respectable co-authors already wrote a paper for this hands-on activity with me. The hands-on activity was held in Osaka University when she visited the great university 2016. Here is her paper: BARRY, D. M., KATSUYAMA, S., TANAKA, T. & KANEMATSU, H. 2016. Beverage Engineers: Creative international STEM project. International Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 8, 18-28. (ref:http://ijhss.net/index.php/ijhss/article/view/193/76)
Professor Hideyuki Kanematsu
National Institute of Technology, Suzuka College
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This page is a summary of: Delicious Drinks, July 2015, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-19234-5_18.
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