A Healthy Plate
Chemistry of Cooking
Food Preservation
Yeast and Rising Dough
Taste
100

This food comes from chickens and is often eaten scrambled or boiled.

What are eggs?

100

The physical state of water.

What is a liquid?

100

This glass container with a metal lid is commonly used for canning foods.

What is a Mason jar?

100

Yeast eats this to produce gas.

What is sugar?

100

This flavor you expect to taste in a lemon.

What is sour?

200

This small, round fruit comes in red, green, and purple and grows in bunches.

What are grapes?

200

This happens when you mix baking soda and vinegar.

What is bubbling or fizzing?

200

This common kitchen ingredient, usually white or apple cider, gives pickles their sour taste.

What is vinegar?

200

A living microorganism that makes dough rise.

What is yeast?

200

This sense works together with taste to help you identify different flavors.

What is smell?

300

This dairy product is often used for baking and spreads easily on bread.

What is butter?

300

The scientific name for a solid turning into a liquid.

What is melting?

300

Pickles are made by soaking cucumbers in a salty liquid called this.

What is brine?

300

This is what yeast does to bread dough.

What is makes it rise and become fluffy?

300

You are experiencing this flavor when eating a pretzel.

What is salty?

400

This grain is tiny, comes in white or brown, and is common in Asian dishes.

What is rice?

400

The process of heating food to remove bacteria and make it safe to eat.

What is cooking?

400

Besides cucumbers, people can pickle many other vegetables, like these orange root vegetables.

What are carrots?

400

This is why bakers let dough sit before baking?

What is to let the yeast produce gas and help the dough rise?

400

This is the place on the tongue where we taste sweetness the most?

What is the tip of the tongue?

500

This vegetable is a root that comes in red, yellow, and even striped varieties.

What is a beet?

500

The change in color of food, often due to heat.

What is browning?

500

Before refrigerators, people used pickling to do this to food so it lasted longer.

What is preserve it?

500

This is the gas that yeast produce?

What is carbon dioxide?

500

This is the place on the tongue where we taste sour the most?

What is the side of the tongue?