General Awareness

Food Ingredients and Cookery

3,481 Questions

Food ingredients and cookery questions test knowledge of culinary practices, dietary alternatives, and food standards. This subject is relevant for general awareness and hospitality exams. Use this set to review essential cooking facts.

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Food Ingredients and Cookery Questions

Multiple choice evs - i food and health effect on general health diet, drugs and disease nourishment and malnutrition diseases caused by changes in lifestyle

Which of the following contain zero value calories?

  1. Milk

  2. Egg

  3. Cocca cola/ soft drink

  4. Fish
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Zero calorie food or negative calorie foods do contain some calories but without any nutritional value. Of the given options, Cocoa Cola or soft drinks are ones that contain zero value calories.

Multiple choice evs food components simple test for nutrients test for nutrients protein and its function energy from different food components nutrients and foodstuffs

Which of the following foods turns blue-black with iodine solution?

  1. Milk

  2. Groundnut

  3. Tomato

  4. Raw potato
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

  • Raw potato contains approximately 17% starch. when iodine solution added to the raw potato sample, it turns blue-black. Iodine reacts with the starch present in the raw potato which results in the formation of blue-black colored complex. 

Hence option D is the correct answer.

Multiple choice evs food components simple test for nutrients test for nutrients protein and its function energy from different food components nutrients and foodstuffs

Which of the following is used to test presence of starch?

  1. Cheek peel

  2. Onion

  3. Potato

  4. None of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

A chemical test for starch is to add iodine solution (red) and see if it turns blue/black in colour. It is possible to distinguish starch from other carbohydrates using this iodine solution test. For example, if iodine is added to an peeled potato then it will turn black. 

Multiple choice biology food and health adulteration of food food adulteration food and human health

Crimson red appearance indicates the adulteration of which food items?

  1. Skimmed milk

  2. Mustard oil

  3. Ghee

  4. Milk
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Adulteration is a process of mixing undesirable and inferior materials in food. The material or substance which is added to food is called as adulterants. Generally, ghee is adultered with vanaspati. However, when ghee is adultered with coal tar dyes. This adulteration is detected by adding hydrochloric acid to the ghee. The appearance of crimson red colour indicates the adulteration of ghee with coal tar dye.

Thus, the correct answer is option C.

Multiple choice economics the state of the indian economy on the eve of independence agricultural market system policy of agriculture, industry and foreign trade under british rule rural development

Which of the following items does not come in the primary article's group?

  1. Onion

  2. Bajra

  3. Urad

  4. Milk
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Primary articles in economic indices typically include food grains and raw materials. Milk is often classified under processed or livestock products rather than the primary article group in specific wholesale price index contexts.

Multiple choice evs food components energy from different food components nutritional requirements of the body need for nutrients simple test for nutrients test for nutrients

In whose milk, percentage of lactose is highest?

  1. Human mother

  2. Cow

  3. She buffallo

  4. She goat
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The percentage of lactose in milk varies with species. Human milk has a high lactose content, the percentage of lactose in human milk ranges from 6.5 to 7.5%. Unprocessed cow milk has about 4.7% lactose, unprocessed goat milk has about 4.7% lactose, unprocessed buffalo milk has about 4.86% lactose. The average in cow and goat milk is less than 5% and vary according to the breed. When human babies are reared on cow or goat milk, it is customary to add lactose, sucrose, glucose, or malto-dextrin in their feed.

Multiple choice biology diseases and hygiene anaemia mosquito and human health non communicable diseases

Which of the following causes the seasonal allergy?

  1. Pollen

  2. Wheat

  3. Nuts

  4. None of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Pollen allergy can is also called as 'seasonal allergic rhinitis'. Each spring, summer, plants release tiny pollen grains to fertilize other plants of same species. Most of pollens that cause allergic reactions  comes from trees, weeds and grasses

Multiple choice evs sources of food food of animals animal and their eating habit classification of animals on the basis of food

Milk and other milk products are obtained from 

  1. Buffaloes

  2. Cow

  3. Goat

  4. All of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

 Breeds which have the higher capacity for milk production are called milch breeds. The milk producing female livestock animals are called as dairy animals or milch animals e.g., cows, buffaloes, goat and sheep. Thus, the correct answer is option D.

Multiple choice evs nutrition and its deficiency general functions of food nutrition and its need in plants nutrition and its need

Components of food are

  1. Two

  2. Five

  3. Three

  4. Four
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation
  • Five components of food that should be a part of our everyday diet. Food is a basic necessity of life. We need it to live, gain energy and promote growth. Most people want to know what they should eat or include in their diet, in order to remain fit and healthy.
  •  A well-balanced diet consisting of fruits, vegetables, proteins, grains, and dairy products is required for a person’s overall well-being. 
  • Thus, option B is correct and other options are wrong.