Dairy Products

  1. What is the temperature to which milk must be heated to be pasteurized? [answer]
  2. Is there a difference in nutritional value between brown-shelled eggs and white-shelled eggs? [answer]
  3. How does butter differ from margarine and oleo? [answer]
  4. How do you make clarified butter? [answer]
  5. How do the holes form in Swiss cheese? [answer]

Fruits And Vegetables

  1. What is the difference between a fruit and a vegetable? [answer]
  2. Is the tomato a fruit or a vegetable? [answer]
  3. What are some common varieties of apples? [answer]
  4. What is a legume? [answer]
  5. What is a star fruit? [answer]
  6. What is an ugli? [answer]
  7. Will an orange ripen after it is picked? [answer]

Meats And Miscellaneous Foods

  1. What are the leanest red meats? [answer]
  2. How hot must the temperature of meat be to ensure that it is safe to eat? [answer]
  3. Which fish have the most nutrients and are the least susceptible to contamination? [answer]
  4. What are sweetbreads? [answer]
  5. What is a prawn? [answer]
  6. Where did bagels originate, and why are genuine bagels boiled before baking? [answer]
  7. Where did pizza originate? [answer]
  8. How does popcorn pop? [answer]
  9. What is Indian corn? [answer]
  10. Who invented peanut butter? [answer]
  11. How is tofu made? [answer]
  12. How are truffles found? [answer]
  13. What are the different kinds of sugar? [answer]
  14. How much maple syrup does a maple tree make? [answer]
  15. What are rose hips? [answer]
  16. How is garlic used? [answer]
  17. What plant is the source for natural vanilla flavoring? [answer]

Nutrition

  1. What are good sources of vitamins? [answer]
  2. What are good sources of the major dietary minerals? [answer]
  3. What are RDAs (Recommended Dietary Allowances)? [answer]
  4. What is the food guide pyramid recommended by the U.S. Department of Agriculture? [answer]
  5. What is the difference between essential and nonessential amino acids? [answer]
  6. How are food calories measured? [answer]
  7. What is the difference between an herb and a spice? [answer]
  8. What is the daily recommended allowance of salt and cholesterol in the diet? [answer]
  9. Why is salt added to ice in an ice cream freezer? [answer]
  10. What terms are allowed under Food and Drug Administration rules to describe the fat content of foods? [answer]
  11. How much junk food does the average American eat in a year? [answer]

Beverages

  1. How many glasses of water should humans drink every day? [answer]
  2. Why does water not put out an oil fire? [answer]
  3. What is the formula for Coca-Cola™? [answer]
  4. What is the beverage known as Moxie™? [answer]
  5. What is wassail? [answer]
  6. Who drinks the most coffee in the world? [answer]
  7. How much caffeine is in coffee, tea, and cocoa? [answer]
  8. How is coffee decaffeinated? [answer]
  9. What are the ingredients in beer? [answer]

Food Processing

  1. Why does the smoking of meat act as a preservative? [answer]
  2. When were frozen foods first available commercially? [answer]
  3. How is food freeze-dried? [answer]
  4. What is MSG? [answer]
  5. What was the first genetically altered whole food? [answer]
  6. Why is flour bleached? [answer]