Vegetable Botanical Names
Fruit Classifications
Fruit and Vegetable Cookery
Vegetable Cookery
Fruit and Vegetable Purchasing
100
Potato
What is a tuber?
100
Currant and grape.
What are berries?
100
This type of preparing fruits is when you dip them in a batter and deep-fat fry them.
What are fritters?
100
This color change will take place if vegetables containing chlorophyll are overcooked.
What is a bright green color to a grayish-green color?
100
Vegetables that are in season are usually ________ in quality and ________ in price.
What is high in quality and low in price?
200
Onions, garlic, leeks
What are bulbs?
200
Crenshaw and Persian.
What are melons?
200
You need to do this to a fruit prior to cooking it in the microwave to prevent it from exploding.
What is piercing the skin?
200
Overcooking vegetables containing carotene will cause the cooking liquid to turn this color.
What is yellow?
200
These vegetables may be overmature and tough.
What are very large vegetables?
300
Beets, turnips, and radishes
What are roots?
300
Kumquat and tangelo.
What are citrus fruits?
300
When you cook fruits in syrup, use this ratio of water to sugar.
What is two to one?
300
If you overcook vegetables that contain flavones, they may turn one of these two colors.
What are yellow or dark gray?
300
These vegetables lose quality quickly, so it's important to only buy what you will use within a short period of time.
What are fresh vegetables?
400
Brussels sprouts, watercress, chard
What are leaves?
400
Persimmon and fig.
What are tropical fruits?
400
This flavor group of vegetables should be cooked in an uncovered pan for a longer period of time.
What are very strongly flavored vegetables?
400
One of these two ingredients can be added to the cooking liquid when preparing vegetables with anthocyanin in order to prevent an undesirable change in color.
What is lemon juice or vinegar?
400
These fruits have not reached full size, they are small and have poor color, flavor, and texture.
What are immature fruits?
500
Asparagus and celery.
What are stems?
500
Peach and plum.
What are drupes?
500
This flavor group of vegetables should be cooked in a small amount of water with the pan covered for a short period of time.
What are mildly flavored vegetables?
500
Some cooks add a pinch of this substance to the cooking water for green vegetables to enhance the color of the vegetables.
What is baking soda?
500
These fruits are full-size, but have not yet reached peak eating quality.
What are underripe fruits?