Food and Nutrition Quiz

Study Notes

Food is any substance ingested to meet the body's needs for energy, building, regulation, and protection.
Nutrition encompasses the processes involved with food from ingestion to utilization for bodily functions.
Adequate, optimum, and good nutrition refer to a sufficient and balanced supply of essential nutrients.
Nutritional status reflects the body's condition as a result of food consumption and utilization.
Health encompasses complete physical, mental, and social well-being, extending beyond the absence of disease.
Malnutrition is a detrimental nutritional condition arising from a lack, excess, or imbalance of nutrients. It encompasses undernutrition and overnutrition.

Food science applies basic sciences and engineering to explore the fundamental properties of food.
Nutrients are the components of food, including carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, vitamins, minerals, and water.
Food processing involves operations that modify food to enhance shelf life, consumer acceptance, and nutrient load.
Food scientists examine the physical, microbiological, and chemical makeup of food.
Food science investigates the behavior of food under different conditions like processing, preservation, and storage.
Food science focuses on the principles of processing and preservation methods to improve food quality.
Food science and technology involve applying physics, chemistry, microbiology, engineering, and nutrition to food handling, processing, and storage.

Food science utilizes scientific disciplines like physics, chemistry, biology, and microbiology.
Food science utilizes technological disciplines like engineering, processing, manufacturing, packaging, and distribution.

Physics contributes to the selection of raw and processed food materials, food properties like pH, humidity, and moisture content, and food handling equipment.
Physics also contributes to heating, cooling, and evaporation processes related to food.