Foodlab Jeopardy!

Nutrition

100

This vitamin is found in citrus, like orange juice, and helps to prevent the scurvy!

Vitamin C

200

This ingredient is extremely beneficial for upset stomachs, digestion, lowering blood sugar, and overall immune system health. (Very common in Asian recipes, and in tea!)

Ginger

300

This protein comes from wheat and gives our doughs texture and stability (hint: we kneed our dough to activate this into a web!)

Gluten

400

What part of the vegetable usually contains the most amount of nutrients

The peels!

500

Spinach and meats contain this element and prevent deficiencies of this in our diet. It is very essential for blood flow and body strength!

Iron

Ingredients

100

This ingredient is dried and toasted so that we can roll our sushi in it.

Seaweed

200

This living bacteria is fed sugar to create carbon dioxide bubbles in our doughs that help it to rise.

Yeast

300

This ingredient is very common in Japanese and East Asian food. It is a sweet rice wine with very low alcohol

Mirin

400

This Chinese dipping sauce is made from a bean paste and frequently referred to as Chinese BBQ sauce

Hoisin

500

This staple of Japanese cuisine comes from fermented soy beans and is turned into a paste before being used.

Miso Paste

Techniques

100

The name for the process of mixing the sugar and butter together in baking before adding other ingredients.

Creaming

200

This technique involves pouring the pan juices and fat that we are cooking in, over whatever it is we are cooking to add additional flavor and moisture.

Basting

300

The process of letting doughs rise in a warm area before baking them. 

Proofing

400

A French cutting technique that involves rolling up the ingredient and slicing thin strips out of it.

Chiffonade

500

The process of cooking sugar.

Caramelize

Global Cuisine

100

Coming from an Island, this cuisine is based primarily around fish and is famous for having the largest and best street food culture.

Japanese

200

This cuisine is the birthplace of fortune cookies and smoking meats like Barbecue

American Food!

300

Separated into Northern and Southern, this cuisine is famous for its use of heavily aromatic spices like cardamom, cloves, and cumin, and is known for its spiciness.

Indian

400

This North African cuisine is famous for being served over a unique sponge bread and eaten with your fingers!

Ethiopian

500

This South American cuisine is responsible for empanadas, chimmichurri, and dulce de leche

Argentine/Argentinian

Misc.

100

Name one specific reason we use the (bear) claw when using knives.

1. Protects your finger tips

OR

2. Helps you aim the knife more accurately

200

An ingredient used primarily for its smell in cooking

Aromatics

300

Native to America, this crop is the #1 crop in America by far, and is used in almost all processed foods world wide.

Corn

400

Other than being used for seasoning and flavor, salt does what in cooking?

Pulls out the water (dehydrates)

500

What internal temperature does chicken need to be cooked to to be 100% safe to eat?

165 degrees Fahrenheit