Cooking with Kids Positively Affects Fourth Graders’ Vegetable Preferences and Attitudes and Self-Efficacy for Food and Cooking PMC

Foods containing the polysaccharide starch, such as corn flour and rice flour, are often used to create and / or thicken sauces. This is because the cooking of these foods causes a process known as starch gelatinisation. Similar to caramelisation, hundreds of different flavour compounds are generated during the Maillard Reaction, the types of which are highly dependant on the food being cooked. For example, the Maillard Reaction is responsible for producing many sulphur containing compounds, which contribute to the savoury, meaty, …