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WorksheetsFood Science - Simple and Complex Carbohydrates
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
What process converts energy from the sun into glucose?
Photosynthesis
Ketosis
Polysaccharides
Hydrolysis
What are the three categories of carbohydrates in food ingredients?
sugars, cookies, cake
sugars, starches, fibers
sugars, disaccharides, fructose
What elements make up all carbohydrates?
Nickel, hydrogen, carbon
Sodium, oxygen and hydrogen
carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen
Where does the body store glucose that is not needed as an immediate source of energy? There are 2 answers.
Heart
Muscles
stomach
stomach
liver
How does the body store glucose?
It stores the glucose as glycogen.
It stores the glucose as muscle
It stores the glucose as extra intestines.
What are granules?
a polysaccharide made from b–D-glucose and cannot be digested by humans
sugar acids that are made from sugar by plants
packets of digestible amylose and amylopectin.
Cellulose is what?
a polysaccharide made from b–D-glucose and cannot be digested by humans.
sugar acids that are made from sugar by plants.
polysaccharides extracted from plants
What are gums?
polysaccharides extracted from plants
sugar acids that are made from sugar by plants
packets of digestible amylose and amylopectin.
What are pectins?
a polysaccharide made from b–D-glucose and cannot be digested by humans.
sugar acids that are made from sugar by plants.
polysaccharides extracted from plants
What are slurries?
Slurries thicken pourable liquids
Slurries are uncooked mixtures of starch and water used in the processing and chemical alteration of starches.
Slurries are ridged starch
What do sols do?
Change the color of the liquid
thicken, pourable liquids.
Make thick liquids thinner
True or False
Pastes flow quickly
True
False
Rigid starch and liquid mixtures are what?
Gels
Sols
Slurries
What can make a translucent sauce?
paste
Wheat flour
Cornstarch
What can make a opaque sauce?
Potato scratch
Arrowroot
Wheat flour
