2018 Food Science CDE Test Questions

Cell cultured food products derived from cell lines of livestock and poultry are a new technology under development. Who will provide regulatory oversight for these novel human food products?

• Only FDA

• Only USDA FSIS

• Joint oversight by FDA and USDA FSIS

• No regulatory oversight has been determined at this time.

As a banana ripens from green to yellow, it ___________.

• becomes sweeter due to an increase in its sugar content

• does not change in bitterness

• becomes more bitter

• has no change in sweetness or sugar content

You have been asked to develop a new salad dressing. One of the specifications is to use an oil with a low saturated fat content. Given the choices below, which would have the lowest saturated fat content?

• Coconut Oil

• Peanut Oil

• Canola Oil

• Olive Oil

Aspergillus produces _______ that are used to clarify juices.

• Amylases

• Cellulases

• Sucrases

• Invertases

___________ is the creation and maintenance of hygienic and healthful conditions.

• Cleanliness

• Sterilization

• Sanitation

• Disinfection

A chocolate truffle and mint ice cream sandwich has the following ingredient statement: Chocolate truffle cookies (bittersweet chocolate [cocoa mass, sugar, cocoa butter, vanilla flavoring], butter [cream, natural flavoring], cane sugar, eggs, dark chocolate chips [cocoa liquor, sugar, cocoa butter, pure vanilla], unbleached flour [enriched wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid], cocoa powder, Madagascar bourbon vanilla extract [water, alcohol, sugar, vanilla bean extractives], sea salt, baking soda), mint ice cream (milk, cream, cane sugar, tapioca syrup, mint, peppermint essential oil, tapioca starch). What allergens must be declared in this product?

• chocolate, milk, wheat

• wheat, tapioca, milk

• chocolate, eggs, wheat

• milk, eggs, wheat

Fresh olives picked from a tree contain a __________ compound requiring them to be cured to make them palatable.

• sour

• sweet

• bitter

• salty

The food industry uses four levels of heat preservation. Which of the following provides complete destruction of all microorganisms?

• Commercial sterilization

• Pasteurization

• Sterilization

• Blanching

The red color of an apple is important for consumer acceptance of red delicious apples so companies that produce apples use a __________ to measure redness, blueness, and yellowness of each apple lot.

• refractometer

• colorimeter

• gas chromatograph

• torrymeter

______ is a common method used to test the viscosity of mixtures such as ketchup.

• The line-spread test

• TBARS

• Spectrophotometry

• Gel electrophoresis