Food & Nutrition
Academic Word List
Agriculture
Culinary Arts

Science
100
Iron
What is a mineral?
100
to make something be by itself, alone
What is isolate?
100
plants grown by farmers
What is a crop?
100
a professional cook who usually is in charge of a kitchen in a restaurant
What is a chef?
100
a part of a cell that controls or influences the appearance, growth, etc., of a living thing
What is a gene?
200
food that is healthy for you
What is nutritious?
200
to happen
What is occur?
200
to become larger or bigger
What is grow?
200
to give or add taste to a food
What is flavor?
200
the most common lab animal
What is a rat?
300
A, B, C, D etc.
What is vitamin?
300
of the body, not mental
What is physical?
300
to gather the crops
What is harvest?
300
to cook (food) in fat or oil
What is fry?
300
the average number of years that a person or animal can expect to live
What is life expectancy?
400
salt, sugar, MSG
What is an additive?
400
to do something as a reaction to another thing
What is respond to?
400
money that you have to pay for bringing a product into the country to be sold
What is import tax?
400
one of the things that are used to make a food, product, etc.
What is ingredient?
400
the person that studies things that are alive (such as plants and animals)
What is a biologist?
500
someone who studies and does experiments with food
What is a food chemist?
500
to get bigger
What is expand?
500
a small object produced by a plant from which a new plant can grow
What is a seed?
500
a thick liquid that is eaten with or on food to add flavor to it
What is sauce?
500
an extremely small living thing that causes a disease and that spreads from one person or animal to another, like AIDS
What is a virus?
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