ERCISES
Answer the following questions:
1.
Why do we need food? What is the study of food called?
2.
What are cereals? Give some examples of cereals.
3.
What are the contents of fruits? How do fruits help human beings
4.
How do we obtain oils? Name some major oil-yielding plants.
5. What are poultry animals? What do we get from them?
6. What does honey consist of?
7. Which animals are called ruminants? Give some examples.
8. What is the difference between vegetarians and non-vegetarians
2. Which animals are called scavengers? Name a few of them.
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Answers
Answer:
1.Food science is the study of the physical, biological, and chemical makeup of food; and the concepts underlying food processing. Food technology is the application of food science to the selection, preservation, processing, packaging, distribution, and use of safe food.
Answer:
1.We need food to survive .The study of food is called food science
2.Cereals are grains.Example of cereals are: maize,wheat,rice,oats,etc.
3.Fruits contain nutrients ,potassium,fiber,vitamins.fruits helps human being by keeping them healthy&fit.
4.We obtain oil from some plants,&animals. some major oil yielding plants:
a.coconut
b.soyabean
c. groundnut
d. sunflower,etc.
5.Poultry can be defined as domestic fowls, including chickens, geese and ducks, raised for the production of meat or eggs and the word Poultry is also used for the flesh of these birds which is used as food.
6.Honey consists of a mixture of sugars, mostly glucose.
7. Ruminants include cattle, sheep, goats, buffalo, deer, elk, giraffes and camels
8. vegetarian diet includes - nuts, vegetables, fruits, grains, and legumes.
A non-vegetarian diet includes chicken, meat, eggs and fish.
9. Large carnivores that hunt regularly, such as hyenas and jackals, but also animals rarely thought of as scavengers, such as African lions, leopards, and wolves will scavenge if given the chance.
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