A chemical feast

Duration: 0:11:00

Genres: Educational, Educational | Instructional

Year Published: 1973

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Concocts a frozen lemon meringue pie of the sort that can be purchased at any grocery store, using only the ingredients listed on the label. Includes such chemicals as ammonium bicarbonate, whey salts, sodium, and many others. Reveals that lemons and eggs were not used in this creation of a lemon meringue pie., Shows how dyes, gums, emulsifiers, and other additives often substitute for real nutritional value in many processed foods in American supermarkets. Comedian Marshall Efron concocts a supermarket lemon pie using ingredients listed on its label.

Complete Record: Presents a humorous look at the chemical composition of a lemon meringue pie and the unit value of four convenience foods. Suitable for upper secondary level.

This film is not rare.

8 users have this film:
Australian Centre for the Moving Image, AV Geeks Archive, Indiana University Library Moving Image Archive, Library of Congress, New York Public Library, Oddball Film and Video, University of Maryland 16mm, Visual Studies Workshop

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