The Real Color of Food

Based on the Article, which best replaces the question mark in the diagram above? " Aunt Betty" is trying to eat healthier foods. The mozzarella she serves is beige, not white.

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  She chooses salmon that wasn't fed a chemical compound to make it brighter.

• Her meals are usually spicy and include ingredients like marigold petals and alfalfa

• Her breakfasts typically include cereal with water buffalo milk instead of cow's milk.

• She puts together weird food combinations and uses spices no one's heard of.

Suppose you were writing a summary of the Article. Which of these would be most important to put in the summary?

• Cereal is often filled with artificial colors to make it brightly colored.

• The color of egg yolks changes according to a hen's diet.

• Some people don't mind eating beige mozzarella made without titanium dioxide.

• The colors of some foods are changing as people try to make healthier choices.

Which of these is an opinion?

• Salmon that eat shrimp and krill in the wild develop a pink-red color.

• If your aunt makes food that looks horrible, it's best to tell her right away.

• Color differences in certain foods can be due to the addition of artificial colors.

• The plant extract annatto can be used to change the natural color of cheddar cheese.

You see, Aunt Betty's meals are experimental in the worst way possible. She puts together weird food combinations and adds spices you've never heard of. She thinks up side dishes that even the dog won't touch. Today's menu is a strange marriage of mozzarella cheese, salmon, and eggs. Which is the closest synonym for the word experimental, as it is used above?

• Enjoyable

• Gross

• Boring

• Inventive

Allison wants to learn more about choosing foods that are good for you. She would find most of her information by __________.

• Searching a website about healthy eating and living

• Reading a book about how cheese is made around the world

• Reading an article about the benefits of titanium dioxide

• Searching a website that shows photos of colorful foods

Which passage from the Article best supports the idea that demand often drives what food producers sell?

• At one point, General Mills tried to remove the artificial colors from its Trix cereal. But the public tends to like what's familiar. Complaints poured in. The company had no choice but to bring back a "classics" version of Trix, with its familiar blend of colors that don't exist in the natural world.

• The hens that laid those eggs probably ate plants like marigold petals and alfalfa. These plants have plenty of carotenoids—naturally occurring pigments. Change a hen's diet, and the color of her egg yolks changes accordingly.

• Mozzarella is an Italian cheese. In Italy, it's made using water buffalo milk, which is white. American mozzarella makers use cow's milk, which has more of a cream color.

• But salmon isn't naturally bright pink. A pale pink-red color develops when wild salmon eat shrimp and krill. Farm-raised salmon, which is often what we buy in the supermarket, isn't fed crustaceans or krill, so its flesh is grey.

Which two words are the closest antonyms, as they're used in the Article?

• Prefer and desire

• Artificial and natural

• Pigment and color

• Weird and strange

Based on the Article, the reader can predict that __________.

• Americans will likely become used to naturally colored foods as more companies remove artificial colors from products.

• Italian cheesemakers will begin adding titanium dioxide to mozzarella to make it the whitest cheese in the world.

• Most Americans will start buying food in its natural state so that they can color it with their own choice of artificial colors.

• Salmon farmers will likely choose to color their salmon something other than pink so that they no longer need to use astaxanthin.