General Awareness

Food Ingredients and Cookery

4,498 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

Which of the following is not a cereal?

  1. Rice

  2. Wheat

  3. Gram seeds

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

Yes, it is the correct answer. It is used to prepare pulse. It is not a cereal and not used as staple diet.

Multiple choice

Which one of the following is not true? Popcorns were discovered by the native Americans thousands of years ago in Guatemala or Mexico.though they were popped in China Sumatra and India long before Columbus reached America. It is known as Popcorn and also �popping corn� because it is a special variety of corn also known as Zea mays everta. It expands because the water expands on it when heated.

Popcorns were not only used as food but also as decoration for ceremonial headdresses and as ornaments on statues of their Gods. It is a hearsay or an unproven theory that an Indian named Quadequina first popped the popcorn in a dear skinned bag filled with sand for the thanksgiving feast.
But today the popcorns are popped in the highly technological machines and you buy them at movies and fairs. Street vendors also sell them by making them through the steam of gas powered poppers in parks and exhibitions.

  1. Popcorns were popped by housewives

  2. Popcorn has been available at the grocery stores for many years

  3. Popcorn was popped at the first Thanksgiving

  4. All of the above

  5. -
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

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Multiple choice

Different ways in which the popcorn was not used.
Popcorns were discovered by the native Americans thousands of years ago in Guatemala or Mexico.though they were popped in China Sumatra and India long before Columbus reached America. It is known as Popcorn and also �popping corn� because it is a special variety of corn also known as Zea mays everta. It expands because the water expands on it when heated.

Popcorns were not only used as food but also as decoration for ceremonial headdresses and as ornaments on statues of their Gods. It is a hearsay or an unproven theory that an Indian named Quadequina first popped the popcorn in a dear skinned bag filled with sand for the thanksgiving feast.
But today the popcorns are popped in the highly technological machines and you buy them at movies and fairs. Street vendors also sell them by making them through the steam of gas powered poppers in parks and exhibitions.

Popcorns were not only used as food but also as decoration for ceremonial headdresses and as ornaments on statues of their Gods. It is a hearsay or an unproven theory that an Indian named Quadequina first popped the popcorn in a dear skinned bag filled with sand for the thanksgiving feast.
But today the popcorns are popped in the highly technological machines and you buy them at movies and fairs. Street vendors also sell them by making them through the steam of gas powered poppers in parks and exhibitions.

  1. As ornament

  2. As food

  3. As As tiara

  4. None of the above

  5. -
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

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Multiple choice

How can you tell if cranberries are ripe?

  1. Only if they're green.

  2. If you drop them................they bounce.

  3. If you bite into them and they ooze juice.

  4. If you bite into them, they crunch.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

A traditional method for testing the ripeness of cranberries is to drop them; ripe cranberries contain air pockets that cause them to bounce, whereas unripe or rotten ones do not.

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 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.