Food Safety and Contamination Quiz

Food Safety

• Foodborne illnesses are transmitted via contaminated food.
• Food poisoning is a significant cause of food contamination.
• HACCP (Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points) involves 7 steps: hazard analysis, determining critical control points, etc.
• Contamination can be physical, biological, or chemical.
• Allergenic foods cause adverse reactions.
• Danger zone temperatures (5-60°C) are unsafe for food storage.

Food Contamination

• Types of contamination include physical, biological, and chemical contamination.
• Foodborne illnesses are transmitted by contaminated food.
• Bacteria, viruses, and microorganisms cause cross-contamination.

Food Safety and Sanitation

• Covering food to maintain its quality is essential.
• Food safety procedures such as mise en place are important for quality food handling.
• Critical control points are necessary in HACCP for ensuring safe food preparation.
• Safe food handling involves appropriate temperatures, like 5°C - 60°C.
• Proper temperatures help in eliminating pathogens.

Basic Baking Ingredients

• Flour types include all-purpose, bread, cake, and self-rising flour, whole wheat.
• Flour composition includes starch, protein, moisture, and other components.
• Common sweeteners include granulated sugar, brown sugar, caster sugar.
• Fats include butter, lard, canola oil, palm oil, margarine, and shortening.
• Leaveners include baking powder, baking soda, and yeast.
• Eggs and dairy products include evaporated milk, condensed milk, full-fat milk, including butter milk, creme, cheeses, and other dairy products.

Baking Tools and Techniques

• Baking tools include oven thermometers, timers, weighing scales, measuring cups, spatulas, cooling racks, muffin trays, baking sheets, rolling pins, wire whisk, and mixing utensils.
• Basic knife components like blade, butt, etc. are essential in baking processes. Knife passing techniques are useful in baking.
• Techniques including creaming, kneading, measuring, mixing, sifting, folding, whisking, and more are used to prepare various food items.