Viterbo, Italy

Food and Wine Technologies

Tecnologie alimentari ed enologiche

Bachelor's
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Food and Wine Technologies at University of Tuscia

Language: ItalianStudies in Italian
University website: www.unitus.it

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Food
Food is any substance consumed to provide nutritional support for an organism. It is usually of plant or animal origin, and contains essential nutrients, such as carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, or minerals. The substance is ingested by an organism and assimilated by the organism's cells to provide energy, maintain life, or stimulate growth.
Wine
Wine (from Latin vinum) is an alcoholic beverage made from grapes, generally Vitis vinifera, fermented without the addition of sugars, acids, enzymes, water, or other nutrients.
Wine
Day and night my thoughts incline
To the blandishments of wine,
Jars were made to drain, I think;
Wine, I know, was made to drink.
Richard Henry Stoddard, A Jar of Wine.
Wine
Is not old wine wholesomest, old pippins toothsomest, old wood burn brightest, old linen wash whitest? Old soldiers, sweethearts, are surest, and old lovers are soundest.
John Webster, Westward Hoe, Act II, scene ii, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Food
Approximately 3.1 million children die from hunger each year.
World Hunger Education Service, "World Child Hunger Facts," Hunger Notes, July 1, 2015
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