Food Quality

Question 1

What is food quality?

Answer 1

Food quality is the degree of excellence of a food and includes all the characteristics of a food that are significant and that make the food acceptable.

Question 2

What are the two types of evaluation?

Answer 2

Sensory (subjective) and objective tests

Question 3

What type of test uses the five senses?

Answer 3

Sensory

Question 4

Objective test use what to evaluate food products?

Answer 4

Equipment

Question 5

How can you analyze color?

Answer 5

HunterLab colorimeter
Photovoltaic reflectance colorimeter

Question 6

How can you analyze texture?

Answer 6

TA.XTplus Texture Analyzer

Question 7

True or False. pH is temperature dependent.

Answer 7

True

Question 8

What does a voltmeter measure?

Answer 8

The potential difference between the two electrodes.

Question 9

How do you calibrate the pH meter standard of operation?

Answer 9

Standard buffer solutions

Question 10

With the two-point calibration what is established?

Answer 10

A linear standard curve

Question 11

What is yellowness index?

Answer 11

A number that indicate the degree of departure of an object from colorless toward yellow.