General Awareness

Salad Dressings and Condiments

1,276 Questions

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

Which of these is an animal oil source used to make margarine?

  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

Which of the following is the odd one out?

  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

Which of the following condiments taste is a product of nanoscale interaction between its constituents?

  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

Which of the following is not a natural oil?

  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

Which of the following is not an essential oil?

  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

What is the full form of BVO?

  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

Which of the following preservatives, is added in jams, jellies and squashes?

  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

Common ingredients that are added in waxes are ___.

  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.

Multiple choice biology health and hygiene - food for living energy from different food components nutritional requirements of the body need for nutrients

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

A 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.

Multiple choice evs nutrition and its deficiency general functions of food nutrition and its need in plants nutrition and its need

Essential oils are those which are

  1. Used in soap manufacture

  2. Used in perfumes

  3. Essential for plant producing them

  4. Essential for human kind
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Essential oils are aromatic and so they get evaporated when they are in contact with air. So, the essential oils are used in the preparation of perfumes, flavoring, and medicine.

So the correct option is B.

Multiple choice evs nutrition and its deficiency general functions of food nutrition and its need in plants nutrition and its need

Which of the following is not an essential oil

  1. Clove oil

  2. Eucalyptus oil

  3. Sandal wood oil

  4. Ground nut oil
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Essential oil evaporate in contact with air and have a pleasant fragrance e.g., rose, sandal, clove, eucalyptus etc. Groundnut oil is a non drying oil and so it is not an essential oil.

So the correct option is D.

Multiple choice evs look, learn and experience matter: states, classification and properties study of matter general introduction: importance and scope of chemistry

Vinegar, which is commonly used in pickle preparation is actually:

  1. Ethyl alcohol

  2. Folic acid

  3. Nitric acid

  4. Acetic acid
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation
Acetic acid (vinegar) is the primary ingredient used in pickle manufacturing. After water, it makes up the bulk of the pickle liquor and contributes significantly to the flavour of the pickle giving it a sour taste.

Hence, the correct option is $D$