What does cigarette smoke contain and what does nicotine do to the smoker?
Author Archive for: Klaus Roth (135)
The Chemistry of Tobacco – Part 3
How Does a Tobacco Plant Synthesize Nicotine?
The Chemistry of Tobacco – Part 2
What does tobacco contain and which chemical changes happen between the harvest and a finished cigarette?
The Chemistry of Tobacco – Part 1
Looking at the history of tobacco consumption – from chewing and snuffing to smoking
The Biochemistry of Peppers – Part 2
We are only able to taste sweet, bitter, sour, salty, and umami – how do we taste hotness?
The Biochemistry of Peppers
How is it that only plants from the genus Capsicum are able to synthesize compounds that sting one’s tongue so intensely?
Vitamin C Deficiency – Part 4
How much vitamin C do we need in our modern food?
Vitamin C Deficiency – Part 3
Looking at the chemical and physiological properties of vitamin C and at how it intervenes in many biochemical processes
Vitamin C Deficiency – Part 2
When scurvy was identified as a form of malnutrition, an exciting race for the isolation, structure determination, and synthesis of vitamin C started
Vitamin C Deficiency
It took hundred of years and a long sequence of small advantages and missed opportunities to discover the importance of vitamin C