Nutrients
Saccharide is another term for this
What is sugar?
Carbohydrates and proteins have this many calories per gram.
What is 4?
Microbes release this substance to start breaking down macromolecules.
What are enzymes?
The three types of food contamination
What is physical, chemical, and biological?
The process of boiling food and quickly cooling it before freezing.
What we call an amino acid that cannot be produced by the human body. Instead, we must consume it.
What is an essential amino acid?
The process of adding a nutrient to a food (typically a vitamin or mineral) in order to correct a nutritional deficiency in a population.
What is fortification?
The term used for bacteria that requires oxygen in order to function.
What is aerobic?
The temperature range of 41 degrees F to 135 degrees F that promotes microbial growth in food.
The process of removing water from food in order to preserve it.
What is dehydration?
What is hydrogen?
The two types of vitamins based on where they are stored in the human body.
What are fat-soluble and water-soluble vitamins?
A substance that is produced in addition to the main product of a chemical reaction.
What is a by-product?
A misfolded protein that causes infection.
What is a prion?
The process of packing food in a jar with a liquid and sealing it using boiling water.
What is canning?
The three types of dietary fat found in food.
What is saturated, unsaturated, and trans?
A specialized protein that speeds up a chemical reaction.
What is an enzyme?
Fungi with single-celled structure that reproduce by budding.
A management system in which food safety is addressed through the analysis and control of biological, chemical, and physical hazards from raw material production, procurement and handling, to manufacturing, distribution and consumption of the finished product.
What is HACCP?
The process of using vinegar or brine to preserve food.
What is pickling?
The process of changing the shape of a protein without changing its structure.
What is denaturation?
The six nutrients required by the human body.
What is protein, carbohydrates, lipids, vitamins, minerals, and water?
An enzymatically controlled change in a food product brought on by the action of microbes.
What is fermentation?
Occurs when contaminated food comes in contact with another food.
What is cross-contamination?
What is pasteurization?