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

The compound used in food products like cheeses & other baked products is

  1. butyl acetate

  2. 5-methacrylic acid

  3. mono ethylene glycol

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

Butyl Acetate is widely used in different food products like cheese, candy ice- cream and baked products. However, this chemical is flammable in nature but it is smoke, flame and spark free. Butyl Acetate is a colourless chemical having characteristic odour, due to which it is highly demanded in diverse applications.

Multiple choice

Gelatin is used in icecream because

  1. it enriches the aroma

  2. it stabilises the colloid and prevents crystallisation

  3. it prevents the formation of colloid

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

Gelatin is added to ice cream as a stabilizing agent that prevents crystallization of water molecules and maintains the smooth colloid structure. It forms a gel network that inhibits ice crystal growth during freezing and storage. Gelatin does not enrich aroma, and preventing colloid formation would be counterproductive to ice cream's structure.

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

Pasteurization is a heat treatment process that kills harmful microorganisms. All four items can be pasteurized: eggs (through hot water bath or oven), beer (to extend shelf life), water (to make it safe for drinking), and milk (the most common application). The process varies by product but all can undergo pasteurization.

Multiple choice

Which of the following is an example of non-selective media?

  1. Chocolate agar

  2. Hektoen enteric agar

  3. Hoyle's agar

  4. Xylose lysine deoxycholate agar

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

Chocolate agar or chocolate blood agar is a non-selective, enriched growth medium used for isolation of pathogenic bacteria.

Multiple choice

A special Japanese green tea called ''genmai-cha'' contains brown rice and is considered as a delicacy fit for a gourmet by most Japanese, though it is virtually unavailable outside Yokohama.

  1. A special Japanese green tea called genmai-cha contains brown rice and is considered as a delicacy fit for a gourmet by most Japanese, though it is virtually unavailable outside Yokohama.

  2. Considered to be a delicacy fit for a gourmet by most Japanese, genmai-cha is a special green tea that contains brown rice, virtually unavailable outside Yokohama.

  3. A special Japanese green tea called genmai-cha contains brown rice and is considered a gourmet delicacy by most Japanese, though it is virtually unavailable outside Yokohama.

  4. Most Japanese consider genmai-cha, a special green tea which contains brown rice, as a delicacy virtually unavailable outside Yokohama.

  5. Though virtually unavailable outside Yokohama, most Japanese consider genmai-cha, a special green tea that contains brown rice, a gourmet delicacy.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

'A gourmets delicacy' is the correct usage. It refers to the thing that is bitter in taste and difficult to eat, even for a person who is fond of eating.

Multiple choice

How is Coffee made from?

  1. Coffee Beans

  2. Coffee leaves

  3. Coffee roots

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

Coffee is produced by roasting the seeds, commonly known as coffee beans, which are found inside the fruit (cherries) of the Coffea plant.

Multiple choice

Nutralite is the brand name of

  1. packaged milk with low fat contents

  2. packaged milk with low carbohydrate value

  3. margarine having low fat contents

  4. toffee
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Multiple choice

Caprylic acid is found in

  1. breast milk

  2. butter

  3. chocolate

  4. nutmeg

  5. None of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

This option is correct because caprylic acid is a common saturated fatty acid.