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After fluid milk, which dairy product is the most consumed in pounds per capita annually? ✔✔Cheese
Annually how many pounds of food does each American consume on average? ✔✔1996 pounds
Based on total annual sales, what is the largest food company in the US? ✔✔PepsiCo
Define "phytochemical." ✔✔Phytochemicals are those which offer no nutritive value to food and are not essential to the diet to live, but rather provide supplementary goodness through grains, fruits, vegetable, etc.
Define "functional food." ✔✔food that provide a health benefit rather than just basic nutrition
Describe three potential long-term health risks of a keto diet. ✔✔kidney stones, liver disease, and deficiencies in vitamins and minerals
Describe what constitutes a "keto" diet. What food constituents are restricted, what constituents are supposed to be consumed? Give examples of foods that would be restricted. ✔✔In a keto diet, the goal is to pretty much eat food with high fats as much as possible, while consuming moderate amounts of protein, and heavily restricting carbs for the diet. An example of a food that might be restricted on a Keto Diet would be bread.
During a keto diet eating pattern the body breaks down lean muscle mass to provide energy. ✔✔False
Food accounts for ______ % of US household expenditures. ✔✔12.9%
Give two examples of approved health claims that can be used on food labels. ✔✔Vitamin B and Vascular Disease
Selenium and Cancer
Give two examples of phytochemicals. ✔✔flavonoids
beta-carotene
How many jobs are created by the agriculture, food and related industries? ✔✔22 million
Chicken
Beef
Pork
Turkey
Fish
The "keto diet" paper mentions that individuals with ____________ (disease or disorder) should NOT implement a keto diet. ✔✔thyroid problems
The average age of the American farmer is about 57 to 58 year of age. ✔✔True
The definition "The discipline in which biology, chemistry, microbiology, physics and engineering are used to study the nature of foods, causes of deterioration and principles underlying processing" is: ✔✔food science
The dietary recommended amount of protein to consume per day for adults in ounces is: ✔✔6 oz
The food and beverage industry employs ___________________ % of the work force in the US. ✔✔11%
The food and beverage industry in the US accounts for $___________ in sales. ✔✔1.7 trillion
The segment of the food manufacturing industry that employees the largest number of employees is: ✔✔bakery
Today one farmer feeds about ______ people. ✔✔ 155
Vegetable oil is made from which of the following? ✔✔soybean
What are the three most consumed vegetables based on pounds per person? ✔✔tomatoes, onions, and potatoes
What is the purpose of reporting milk availability per capita as "equivalents?" ✔✔The reporting of milk availability per capita as equivalents is important because milk equivalents such as cheese and butter are made from a lot more milk than is used by the average person. It take approximately 10 lbs. of milk to make 1 pound of butter.
What is top agricultural export based on billions of dollars of product exported? ✔✔soybeans
What state employs the largest number of employees in food and beverage manufacturing? ✔✔California
When considering the food dollar, what segment of the food and agriculture industry gets the largest percent of that dollar? ✔✔food service
Which federal regulatory agency oversees nutrient content claims and health claims made by manufacturers on food packaging? ✔✔Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Define "colligative properties" of solutions. ✔✔Colligative properties strictly refer to studying the number of solutes found within a given solution.
The heat of vaporization of water is __________ calories per gram. ✔✔ 539
What is the "shape" or geometric configuration of a water molecule? ✔✔tetrahedral
What are three means of reducing water activity in a food? ✔✔drying/dehydration, use of humectants, and freezing
No known foodborne pathogen grows below a water activity of __________. ✔✔.
As the solute concentration in a solution increases the freezing point of the solution _________________. ✔✔decreases
