KS3 food - get to know the taste and flavour

Design/Technology Quiz - Food 01 (Questions)

This KS3 Design and Technology quiz asks questions about food. The flavour and taste of food will determine whether or not you like it. With regards to your D and T classes, an exciting range of food materials is available for designing and making food products. During your studies, you will find out why certain ingredients are used in cooking, what they do and how they work.

When putting different types of food together to prepare a meal, you need to know what nutrients they contain, for example, meat and fish contain protein and some of the vitamins your body requires. A nutritious meal will contain the nutrients that your body needs in the right quantities. Pre-cooked meals are readily available and usually just need reheating - perfect for people who are short of time. The trouble is, they are often not very well balanced and provide you with too many calories and too much salt. The can also contain artificial chemicals called additives to which some people are allergic.

Pre-cooked foods packaged as complete dishes or meals that only need reheating are known as what?

[ ]	Bargain foods
[ ]	Basic foods
[ ]	Convenience foods
[ ]	Exotic foods

The taste buds in the tongue can detect how many basic tastes?

[ ]	3
[ ]	4
[ ]	5
[ ]	6

What are the basic tastes?

[ ]	Salt, sour, fruit and bitter
[ ]	Sour, sweet, salt and bitter
[ ]	Sweet, tart, fruit and sour
[ ]	Tart, sweet, sour and bitter

Many of the foods we eat are:

[ ]	androids
[ ]	colloids
[ ]	colons
[ ]	lipids

Which of the following are the two phases of a colloid?

[ ]	continuous and disperse
[ ]	focal and taste
[ ]	sweet and sour
[ ]	water and liquid

Which of the following is a disadvantage of pre-cooked and pre-packed food that is bought from shops and supermarkets?

[ ]	The packaging cannot be recycled
[ ]	They are not always balanced in nutrients
[ ]	They often contain a lot of artificial additives and salt
[ ]	All of the above

In a sponge cake, which ingredient acts as a binding agent?

[ ]	Butter
[ ]	Egg
[ ]	Flour
[ ]	Sugar

There are three sorts of raising agent. What are they?

[ ]	Biological, mechanical and natural
[ ]	Electrical, organic and chemical
[ ]	Mechanical, chemical and biological
[ ]	Organic, natural and electrical

A way to thicken a liquid is to use some form of starch such as cornflour or arrowroot. What is this called?

[ ]	Gelatinization
[ ]	Naturalization
[ ]	Solidification
[ ]	Starchification

10.

Bread, sugar, potatoes and pasta are all good sources of which nutrient?

[ ]	carbohydrates
[ ]	fats
[ ]	proteins
[ ]	vitamins

Design/Technology Quiz - Food 01 (Answers)

Pre-cooked foods packaged as complete dishes or meals that only need reheating are known as what?

[ ]	Bargain foods
[ ]	Basic foods
[x]	Convenience foods
[ ]	Exotic foods

It is not good for your health to eat pre-cooked meals all of the time as they usually provide your body with too many calories

The taste buds in the tongue can detect how many basic tastes?

[ ]	3
[ ]	4
[x]	5
[ ]	6

The flavour of a food comes from the balance between the tastes and the aroma detected by your nose. That is why you sometimes can't taste food very well when you have a cold.
The 5 tastes are: sweet, sour, salt, bitter, and savoury (sometimes called umami)

What are the basic tastes?

[ ]	Salt, sour, fruit and bitter
[x]	Sour, sweet, salt and bitter
[ ]	Sweet, tart, fruit and sour
[ ]	Tart, sweet, sour and bitter

These are detected by different parts of your tongue

Many of the foods we eat are:

[ ]	androids
[x]	colloids
[ ]	colons
[ ]	lipids

A colloid is a mixture of things which usually do not mix but, once they have, can be difficult to separate

Which of the following are the two phases of a colloid?

[x]	continuous and disperse
[ ]	focal and taste
[ ]	sweet and sour
[ ]	water and liquid

The continuous phase runs right through the colloid, the disperse phase is the material that is spread through the continuous phase

Which of the following is a disadvantage of pre-cooked and pre-packed food that is bought from shops and supermarkets?

[ ]	The packaging cannot be recycled
[ ]	They are not always balanced in nutrients
[ ]	They often contain a lot of artificial additives and salt
[x]	All of the above

They also often contain trans-fats which are believed to lead to heart disease

In a sponge cake, which ingredient acts as a binding agent?

[ ]	Butter
[x]	Egg
[ ]	Flour
[ ]	Sugar

A binding agent is a substance that holds a mixture together

There are three sorts of raising agent. What are they?

[ ]	Biological, mechanical and natural
[ ]	Electrical, organic and chemical
[x]	Mechanical, chemical and biological
[ ]	Organic, natural and electrical

Raising agents cause mixtures to expand by forming pockets of air or carbon dioxide within the mixture. An example of a mechanical raising agent is when you whip cream. A chemical raising agent is sodium bicarbonate which releases carbon dioxide during cooking and a biological raising agent is yeast, which releases carbon dioxide into the mixture before cooking

A way to thicken a liquid is to use some form of starch such as cornflour or arrowroot. What is this called?

[x]	Gelatinization
[ ]	Naturalization
[ ]	Solidification
[ ]	Starchification

If they are not mixed with a small amount of cold liquid first, the liquid will not thicken properly

10.

Bread, sugar, potatoes and pasta are all good sources of which nutrient?

[x]	carbohydrates
[ ]	fats
[ ]	proteins
[ ]	vitamins

Carbohydrates give us energy