General Awareness

Food Ingredients and Cookery

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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

Why was Kellogg making bread dough one day?

Directions: Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

Nobody knew that one of America's first beloved cereals was invented by accident. It all started with Will Keith Kellogg, his interest in medicine and a bout of forgetfulness. Kellogg used to help his brother, who worked as a doctor at the Battle Creek Sanitarium in Michigan, with patients and their diets. One day he was conducting research with his brother and helping cook meals for patients, Kellogg stumbled upon a discovery that would change his life. Responsible for making bread dough one day, Kellogg accidentally left his main ingredient, boiled wheat, sitting out for several hours. When he came back to roll the ingredient into dough, the wheat became flaky. Curious to see what would happen, Kellogg baked the flaky dough anyway, creating a crunchy and flaky snack. The flakes were a hit with patients, so Kellogg embarked on a mission to enhance the product for large-scale sale. Will Kellogg tinkered with his recipe and finally settled on using corn as a main ingredient for the flakes. He launched his business, 'The Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flakes Company', in 1906, which eventually came to be known as the Kellogg's company that sells Corn Flakes, other cereals and convenience foods today.

  1. It is because he was helping patients with their diets.

  2. It is because he has a bakery.

  3. It is because he was ordered by his brother to do so.

  4. It is because he was a cook.

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

It is the exact reason as the passage says, "One day he was conducting research with his brother and helping him cook meals for the patients."

Multiple choice

Find the odd one out.

  1. Cheese

  2. Butter

  3. Milk

  4. Bread

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

Bread is a staple food prepared by baking a dough of flour and water. It is popular around the world and is one of the world's oldest foods. Here the main ingredient is wheat, which is obtained from the plants.

Multiple choice

In which of the given food items, starch is not a major carbohydrate?

  1. Rice

  2. Wheat

  3. Sugarcane

  4. Dried beans

  5. Amorphophallus
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Sucrose is found in the stems of sugar cane and roots of sugar beet. Sucrose content is a highly desirable trait in sugarcane as the worldwide demand for cost effective biofuels surges. Sucrose content in the mature internodes of sugarcane may reach around 20% of the culms dry weight.