Ask The Experts About Dna Model Ideas With Food

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A few ideas :
spaghetti or gummy worms – micro-tubules
a walnut or cabbage (in cross-section) – endoplasmic reticulum
a cashewnut – lysosome, etc.
Cooked pasta/spaghetti – ER
mini marshmallows – Ribosomes
marshmallows – nucleolus
whole grains [cooked kidney beans, etc] – for Golgi bodies, etc.
Scooped out marshmallows or some such fruit, etc. For vacuoles.

Here are a few general categories of foods you could look at closely & choose as an organelle [if you want the cake to be completely edible, cook the raw foods like grains & pasta before placing on cake] :
* seeds & whole spices
* breakfast cereals
* food grains & cereals & pulses
* biscuits, cookies
* candies
* pasta – so many shapes & colors!
* dry fruiits & nuts
* cheeses
* fresh fruits, veggies
You can use these whole, sliced, diced, turned, shaped/sculpted into the right shape, etc.

You can’t have Both cilia And Flagella on the same cell, can you? Anyways, you could use those long candy sticks or cooked pasta dipped in some strong starchy/sugar syrup solution to make them stiff or chocolate batons.
You can use frosting in diff colors to use as membranes such as nuclear membrane, etc.
Also use diff food colorings to give you an easily differentiated cell & organelles therein.

For Nucleus, I would suggest scooping out the center of the cake to make a kind of depression [trying to show the cell in cross-section] ; cover with colored frosting layer for NM, fill with jello within which you can place the DNA & Nucleolus.

Hope these help
Have fun