The Top Three Things You Would Tell Your Children About Food Science

With my daughter, the way we encourage her to think about food is to actually do experiments. We'll taste things one at a time and ask her to use words to describe it. And so I think getting kids to think critically like that is just like a good practice in general for analytical thinking and scientific thinking. It's not just blindly trying things until something works; you have to decide which ones are likely to work.