Nutrition and Health
Our body needs Macronutrients?
In what amount?
Large.
There is a raising agent that makes the bread dough prove (rise).
What is the name of this raising agent?
Yeast
If someone eats contaminated food, they might get really sick.
What is the general name of the illness they might develop?
Food poisoning.
There are certain special days in a year when we tend to eat special food.
Mention 3 special occasions when this might happen.
Birthday.
Christmas.
Eid.
Wedding.
Etc.
Flour comes from a grain.
What is the name of this grain?
Wheat.
Some foods are good sources of Protein.
What are 3 good food sources?
1. meat
2. cheese
3. fish
There is a cooking process where meat or vegetables are soaked in a strongly flavoured oily liquid.
What is the name of this process?
Marinating.
We use colour-coded cutting boards for different types of food.
What do we want to avoid by doing so?
Cross-contamination.
Some people eat or don't eat certain foods because of their religion. Give an example for this.
Muslim - Halal, no pork, no alcohol
Judaism - Kosher, no pork
Hinduism - No beef, no alcohol
There is a method of farming where the animals have access to outdoor spaces.
What is the name of this farming method?
Free range farming.
There are protein alternatives, e.g. for vegetarians.
Mention 2 alternatives.
1. tofu
2. soy
3. beans
In this process eggs or egg whites are beaten at high spead.
What do we call beating eggs with another word?
Whisking.
Our fridges have to be set for the correct temperature.
What temperature is this?
Approximately 5C.
Certain foods are only available at certain times in a year.
What is the word for these foods?
Seasonal foods.
At one point this year we made cheese together.
Name 2 ingredients we used for making our cheese.
Milk.
Lemon juice.
Salt.
There are 2 basic types of Fats.
What are the 2 types?
1. saturated
2. unsaturated
There is a raising agent you use when making cupcakes.
What is the name of this raising agent?
Baking powder.
There is a type of contaminating bacteria that we might get from raw eggs or poultry.
What is the name of this bacteria?
Salmonella.
Some food products have their genetic information changed by scientists in order to make certain characteristics stronger.
What do we call this scientific change?
Genetically modified.
GM.
Before we can drink it, milk has to be pasturised.
How does pasteurisation happen?
First they heat up the milk to a hot temperature and then they cool it down.
The lack of one vitamin results in rickets, the deformity of bones.
Which vitamin is this?
C
Our body needs oils to supply the water-soluble vitamins.
What is the name for the other kind of vitamins?
Water-soluble vitamins
We know of many micro-organisms that can spoil food.
Name one microorganism.
Mould.
Yeast.
Bacteria.
There is a distance that food travels from producer to consumer.
What do we call this distance?
Food miles.
There are certain chemicals that can enhance the soil and make plants grow faster, bigger, or more resistant.
What is the collective name for these chemicals.
Fertilisers.