A list of ingredients
A complete set of instructions for preparing a certain dish
What is a recipe?
100
A plant material that cant be digested. Consumption helps your digestive tract work properly.
What is fiber or dietary fiber?
100
Knives, forks, and spoons that you eat with
What is flatware?
100
9 calories per gram or about 3500 calories per pound
What amount of calories is in each pound of fat?
100
Adding nutrients back into a food that are lost during processing.
What is enrichment?
200
A knife used to peel, cut, and slice fruits and vegetables
What is a parring knife?
200
Nutrients that do not provide energy or build body tissue, but help regulate the these and other body processes. (Thiamin, Riboflavin, Niacin, B, C, Folate, D, A, E, and K)
What are vitamins?
200
Working simultaneously on multiple tasks in the kitchen in order to be more efficient.
What is dovetailing?
200
A hormone made by the pancreas that allows your body to use sugar (glucose) from the carbohydrates in the food you eat.
What is insulin?
200
Foods that are packaged partly or fully prepared.
What are convenience foods?
300
Freezing, Canning, Drying foods, Irradiation, and Curing
What are preservation methods?
300
A condition caused by a severe lack of vitamin C
What is scurvy?
300
A method of serving meals in which portions of the food are passed around the table and guests serve themselves.
What is American or Family Style meal service
300
A condition in which the body cannot control levels of sugar in the blood properly.
What is diabetes?
300
Growing foods using little or no synthetic fertilizers or pesticides.
What is organic?
400
A tool used for draining liquid from foods such as cooked pasta
What is a colander?
400
It is liquid at room temperature. Examples of foods that contain it, are nuts, vegetables oils, olives, and avocados.
What are unsaturated fats?
Saturated fats are hard at room temperature.
400
A daily guide of healthful eating recommended by the US govt.
What is MyPlate Guidelines?
400
A condition of high blood pressure. Salt and sodium contribute to high blood pressure and should be monitored.
What is hypertension?
400
Foods that are not fresh or straight from the farm. They are packaged in a plant and sent through a system before arriving at the store.
What are processed foods?
500
A chemical reaction that splits complex compounds into simpler substances.
What is fermentation?
500
They are made up of sugar molecules that are strung together in long, complex chains. They are your starch foods. They are found in foods such as peas, beans, whole grains and vegetables.
What are complex carbohydrates?
500
A person who plans the meals
What is a meal manager?
500
stored glucose in the body. It is used when the body needs a quick boost of energy.
What is glycogen?
500
An organism that has had its DNA altered or modified in some way through genetic engineering.