General Awareness

Salad Dressings and Condiments

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Culinary basics like salad dressings, oils, and condiments are occasionally featured in hospitality and general knowledge exams. Questions cover the preparation of vinaigrettes, types of vinegar, and primary ingredients in popular salads. Test your understanding of these cooking fundamentals with the provided set.

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Salad Dressings and Condiments Questions

Multiple choice
  1. Sunflower

  2. Groundnut

  3. Mustard

  4. None of these

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Groundnut (peanut) is among the highest oil-producing crops, yielding approximately 40-50% oil by weight. Sunflower and mustard also produce significant oil but less than groundnut. India is a major groundnut producer, and its oil is widely used in cooking and food processing globally.

Multiple choice
  1. Sesame oil

  2. Corn oil

  3. Oleo oil

  4. Olive oil

  5. Palm oil

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Margarine is a butter substitute made from a wide variety of both animal and vegetable fats and often mixed with milk and/or butter. Oleo oil is obtained from beef fat. It is used in making margarine and soap and in lubrication.

Multiple choice
  1. Refined oil

  2. Ghee

  3. Rice

  4. Butter

  5. Mustard oil

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Rice is a rich source of carbohydrate. It contains least amount of fat. So this is making it odd one from the rest options.

Multiple choice
  1. Mustard sauce

  2. Ketchup

  3. Mayonnaise

  4. All of the above

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The nanostructure of lipids and proteins of mayonnaise contribute to its taste. They are combined into an emulsion as little droplets that are only a few hundred nanometers in size. So mayonnaise does not taste like eggs, oil or water. It is the interaction of the droplets' nanostructure, achieved through whipping and heating, that contributes to the taste and texture.

Multiple choice
  1. Allantoic acid

  2. Allantoin

  3. Allyl propyl disulfide

  4. Allylamine

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Allyl propyl disulfide is an organic compound with the chemical formula C6H12S2. It is a pale-yellow liquid with a strong odour, it is a main ingredient in onion oil and used as food additives and flavours.

Multiple choice
  1. Sulphuric acid

  2. Nitric acid

  3. Hydrochloric acid

  4. None of these

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Oil of vitriol is an archaic name for concentrated sulphuric acid. This name originated from its oily appearance and its production from vitriols.

Multiple choice
  1. Essential oil

  2. Soft parrafin

  3. Mineral oil

  4. Fixed oils

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Soft paraffin is a semi-solid mixture of hydrocarbons (with carbon numbers mainly higher than 25),[2] originally promoted as a topical ointment for its healing properties. Its folkloric medicinal value as a cure-all has since been limited by better scientific understanding of appropriate and inappropriate uses.

Multiple choice
  1. V2O5

  2. Ni

  3. Pt

  4. Al2O3

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

One important industrial use is in the hydrogenation of vegetable oils to make margarine, which also involves reacting a carbon-carbon double bond in the vegetable oil with hydrogen in the presence of a nickel catalyst. Ethene molecules are adsorbed on the surface of the nickel. The double bond between the carbon atoms breaks and the electrons are used to bond it to the nickel surface.

Multiple choice
  1. Ylang-ylang oil

  2. Sandalwood oil

  3. Jasmine oil

  4. Groundnut oil

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

 Peanut oil, also known as groundnut oil or arachis oil, is a mild-tasting vegetable oil derived from peanuts.It is not an essential oil. 

Multiple choice
  1. Brominated vegetable oil

  2. Brown vegetable oil

  3. Building vegetable oil

  4. Bromaic vegetable oil

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Brominated vegetable oil

Multiple choice
  1. Common salt

  2. Sugar

  3. Vinegar

  4. Ethanoic acid

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

 Preservatives are substances that prevent attack and growth of micro organisms on food and prevent its spoilage. So, to preserve food for longer duration, preservatives are added. Jams, Jellies and squashes are sweet substances. Sugar also acts as a preservative and is added to these to store them longer. 

Multiple choice
  1. azulene

  2. chamomile

  3. tea tree oil

  4. all of the above

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Azulene, chamomile, and tea tree oil are all common soothing or antibacterial ingredients added to professional waxing formulas to benefit the skin.

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Ground nut oil is a

  1. Non-drying oil

  2. Essential oil

  3. Drying oil

  4. None of the above

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

non-drying oil is the one which does not harden when exposed to air whereas drying oil hardens through polymerization.

The non-drying oils include almond oil, coconut oil, groundnut oil etc and the drying oils include poppy seed oil, walnut oil, linseed oil, etc.
So the correct option is A.