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WorksheetsFood Science CDE - Chapter 24: Food Additives
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 20mins
What are food additives?
Substances that provide us with important nutrients.
Substances that provide energy for your body.
Substances that play a role in building strong bones.
Substances a food producer adds to a food to preserve and improve it.
What are natural and synthetic additives?
Natural additives are additives that occur naturally in food or parts of plants. Synthetic additives are additives that are made in a laboratory.
Natural additives are additives that are made in a laboratory. Synthetic additives are additives that occur in food or parts of plants.
For an additive to gain FDA acceptance, a manufacturer must first submit evidence showing that the substance doesn't cause harm. Then, if met, the FDA decides how the additive may be used and in what amount.
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False
What does the Delaney Clause state?
That individuals can make homemade products and offer them for commercial sale.
That no substance shown to cause cancer in humans or animals may be added to food.
That at least one person, during a self-catered camp, must be responsible for all food preparation and handling.
That food products should be appropriately labeled.
The GRAS list contains a class of additives that are "generally recognized as safe." It is useful because it saves time by not having to get an additive approved by the FDA.
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False
The four purposes of additives include that they are used in foods to improve storage properties, they increase healthfulness, they make food more appealing, and they improve processing and preparation.
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False
Select the true answer options about preservatives.
Preservatives are chemicals used to prevent mold and bacteria from spoiling food.
Preservatives slow down the process that makes many fatty foods turn rancid.
Preservatives are dangerous to us.
Preservatives prevent certain fresh fruits and vegetables from turning brown.
Why are preservatives added to our food?
Because they are economical and don't affect a food's flavor, color, or texture.
Because they provide more nutrients.
Because they are good for you.
Because they provide more vitamins.
Select the purposes of nutritional additives?
Fortification: The addition of nutrients that are not normally found in a food.
Restoration: When nutrients that are lost in processing are returned to the food.
Nutrification: The addition of nutrients to a food with a low nutrient/k calorie ratio so the food can replace a nutritionally balanced meal.
Enrichment: The addition of nutrients lost in processing.
Nutritive sweeteners metabolize to produce calories, while non nutritive sweeteners have no calories but still taste sweet.
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False
A stabilizer is a substance that keeps a compound, mixture, or solution from changing its form or chemical nature.
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False
Buffers are used to reach the desire pH in preparing and preserving foods. They maintain the balance of hydrogen to hydroxide ions.
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False
For centuries, nitrites have been used to preserve and flavor cured meats.
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False
As a food inspector, what education is needed?
Graduate degree
Experience such as working as a butcher or in a slaughterhouse or processing plant.
Master's degree
Bachelor's degree
Apples, oranges, eggplant, and lemons are treated with a coat of oil-based waxes to help maintain freshness by sealing in moisture.
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False
What disease prompted the first case of fortification in the United States?
Cancer
Diabetes
Goiter
Pneumonia
When was iodine first added to table salt?
1824
1924
1926
1917
What was added to milk in the 1930s to combat rickets?
Vitamin D
Vitamin K
Vitamin E
Vitamin A
The fortification of flour and cornmeal with iron and niacin reduced occurrences of pellagra in the southern United States.
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False
What are some of the benefits of using food additives?
They provide more nutrition.
They provide more calcium.
Food can be shipped safely over long distances, they can be stored in less than ideal conditions without losing quality, and more food is available to the people who need it.
They provide more carbohydrates.
