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

Which of the following milk-based ingredients is/are used in yoghurt making?

  1. Lactobacillus bulgaricus

  2. Streptococcus thermophilus

  3. Both 1 and 2

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

Yogurt is made through bacterial fermentation of milk using specific starter cultures. Lactobacillus bulgaricus and Streptococcus thermophilus are the two essential bacteria used together in a symbiotic relationship to produce yogurt's characteristic texture and flavor. Both are required.

Multiple choice

Which among the following products can be pasteurized?

  1. Egg 2. Beer 3. Water 4. Milk

  1. Only 1, 2 and 3

  2. Only 2, 3 and 4

  3. Only 1, 2 and 4

  4. All 1, 2, 3 and 4
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

All four products listed can be pasteurized. Pasteurization is a heat treatment process that can be applied to various liquids and foods including milk (standard), beer (craft brewing), eggs (in-shell pasteurization), and water (for safety). Each product uses different temperature and time parameters.

Multiple choice

Spirulina is utilized in which of the following?

  1. Butter milk

  2. Sour cream

  3. Dosa, uppma and idli

  4. Toddy

  5. SCP (Single cell protein)
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
E Correct answer
Explanation

It is the production of microbial biomass as supplementary food for humans and animals. The common SCP are Spirulina, Yeast and Fusarium graminearum. Processing is required. SCP is rich in high quality protein, vitamins and minerals but poor in fat, besides proving much needed proteins.

Multiple choice

Tartar emetic is used as a

  1. mordant and in dyeing textiles

  2. food additive

  3. baking powder

  4. food beverage

  5. water softner
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

This option is correct because it is a white water soluble. The sweet and metallic testing poisonous powder or granules C4H4KO7Sb is used as mordant for dyeing textile and leather. It is also used in medicine as an expectront for inducing vomiting and for infection by schistosomes.

Multiple choice

Which of the following can be excluded from the category of food additives?

  1. Abietic acid

  2. Quinones

  3. Agar

  4. Alkanet
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Quinones are oxidised derivatives of aromatic compounds and are often readily made from reactive aromatic compounds with electron-donating substituents such as phenols and catechols.Natural or synthetic quinones show a biological or pharmacological activity, some of them show antitumoral activity. Thus it can be excluded from the category of food additives.

Multiple choice

Which is the sixth group of food pyramid?

  1. Fats and sweet

  2. Milk, yogurt, and cheese; and meat, poultry

  3. Bread, cereal, rice

  4. Meat and Protein

  5. Vegetables
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Fats, oils and sweets provide hardly any nutrition for the body, so we should eat very little from this fifth food group.