AQA Food Preparation And Nutrition -
Key Terms Questions And Answers
Milling - correct answers✔✔Breaking cereal grains (seeds) down and separating the
layers, turning the grain into flour
Nutritional modification - correct answers✔✔Changing the nutritional profile of a food
product so that it meets current dietary guidelines or helps provide a health benefit
Fortification - correct answers✔✔Adding extra nutrients to a food product during its
manufacture
Food additives - correct answers✔✔Natural or synthetic (man-made) chemical
substances that are added to foods during manufacturing or processing to improve the
quality, flavour, colour, texture or stability
Menu - correct answers✔✔A selection of dishes. For the Non-Exam Assessment three
dishes will be produced to meet the chosen task. These may be a selection of individual
dishes or three dishes that make up a meal
Life stage - correct answers✔✔Phases of development that people go through during
their life, such as infancy, childhood, adolescence (teenagers), adulthood and the
elderly
Culinary Tradition - correct answers✔✔Ingredients or foods that are associated with a
particular country or region, e.g. pasta is a traditional Italian food
Time plan - correct answers✔✔A step-by-step plan to follow when making the final
dishes
Dovetail - correct answers✔✔To fit together a variety of different stages into a plan (e.g.
different stages of making different recipes)
Mise en place - correct answers✔✔The preparation of the dishes and ingredients
before starting to cook
Food miles - correct answers✔✔The distance travelled by all the ingredients in a food
product until it reaches our plate
,Food intolerance - correct answers✔✔A long-term condition where after several hours
or days, certain foods cause a person to feel unwell and have a range of symptoms, but
it is usually not life threatening and does not involve the immune system
Food allergy - correct answers✔✔This happens to some people when their immune
system has a very sensitive reaction to specific foods, which causes severe and
potentially life-threatening symptoms that happen very quickly after the food is eaten
Target Group - correct answers✔✔A specific group of similar people, e.g. all the same
age, with similar jobs, such as students
Nutritional profile - correct answers✔✔The types and amounts of different nutrients a
food contains
Marketing - correct answers✔✔Advertising and promoting a food product to encourage
people to buy it
Cuisine - correct answers✔✔A traditional style of cooking and eating that has
developed in a country or region of the world
Senses - correct answers✔✔The ability of the body to react to things through sight,
taste, touch, hearing and smell (aroma)
Appetising - correct answers✔✔Food prepared, cooked and served so well that you
want to eat it
Taste buds - correct answers✔✔Special cells on the tongue that pick up flavours
Olfactory (smell) receptory - correct answers✔✔Special cells in the nose that pick up
aromas (smells)
Sensory analysis - correct answers✔✔A way of measuring the sensory qualities of food
Sensory descriptors - correct answers✔✔Words used to describe the characteristics of
a food
Food provenance - correct answers✔✔Where foods and ingredients originally come
from
Pesitsides - correct answers✔✔Chemicals sprayed onto plant crops to prevent insect
and mould attack and weed growth, and produce strong plants
Grown ingredients - correct answers✔✔Plants grown for food (herbs, fruits, vegetables,
cereals)
, Reared ingredients - correct answers✔✔Animals, birds and fish specially bred in
captivity and brought up to be ready to eat
Gathered ingredients - correct answers✔✔Plant foods gathered from the wild for eating
(e.g. herbs, edible fungi, berries, seaweed)
Caught ingredients - correct answers✔✔Animals, birds, fish and shellfish hunted and
caught from the wild for eating
Intensive farming - correct answers✔✔Growing or rearing large numbers of the same
type of plants or animals in one place
Organic farming - correct answers✔✔Producing food using manure, compost and
natural methods of weed, pest and disease control rather than chemicals
Genetic modification (GM) - correct answers✔✔A scientific technique that enables a
particular characteristic from one plant or animal to be inserted into the genes of
another
Climate change - correct answers✔✔Changes in the earth's temperature that can lead
to unusual and extreme weather conditions
Greenhouse gases - correct answers✔✔Form an insulating layer around the earth's
atmosphere, which traps heat and raises the earths temperature
Non-renewable energy - correct answers✔✔Energy produced from fossil fuels that
cannot be renewed once they are used up
Fossil Fuels - correct answers✔✔Fuels such as coal, oil and gas that were created over
millions of years by fossilised plants and animals
Carbon Footprint - correct answers✔✔A measure of the contribution of something (e.g.
food production) to the emission of greenhouse gases
Food security - correct answers✔✔The ability of some people to buy sufficient safe,
nutritious and affordable food
Sustainability - correct answers✔✔Producing food in a way that can be maintained over
a long period of time and protects the environment
Fair trade - correct answers✔✔A foundation set up to ensure that food producers in
developing countries get paid a fair price for their crops and have decent working and
living conditions
Key Terms Questions And Answers
Milling - correct answers✔✔Breaking cereal grains (seeds) down and separating the
layers, turning the grain into flour
Nutritional modification - correct answers✔✔Changing the nutritional profile of a food
product so that it meets current dietary guidelines or helps provide a health benefit
Fortification - correct answers✔✔Adding extra nutrients to a food product during its
manufacture
Food additives - correct answers✔✔Natural or synthetic (man-made) chemical
substances that are added to foods during manufacturing or processing to improve the
quality, flavour, colour, texture or stability
Menu - correct answers✔✔A selection of dishes. For the Non-Exam Assessment three
dishes will be produced to meet the chosen task. These may be a selection of individual
dishes or three dishes that make up a meal
Life stage - correct answers✔✔Phases of development that people go through during
their life, such as infancy, childhood, adolescence (teenagers), adulthood and the
elderly
Culinary Tradition - correct answers✔✔Ingredients or foods that are associated with a
particular country or region, e.g. pasta is a traditional Italian food
Time plan - correct answers✔✔A step-by-step plan to follow when making the final
dishes
Dovetail - correct answers✔✔To fit together a variety of different stages into a plan (e.g.
different stages of making different recipes)
Mise en place - correct answers✔✔The preparation of the dishes and ingredients
before starting to cook
Food miles - correct answers✔✔The distance travelled by all the ingredients in a food
product until it reaches our plate
,Food intolerance - correct answers✔✔A long-term condition where after several hours
or days, certain foods cause a person to feel unwell and have a range of symptoms, but
it is usually not life threatening and does not involve the immune system
Food allergy - correct answers✔✔This happens to some people when their immune
system has a very sensitive reaction to specific foods, which causes severe and
potentially life-threatening symptoms that happen very quickly after the food is eaten
Target Group - correct answers✔✔A specific group of similar people, e.g. all the same
age, with similar jobs, such as students
Nutritional profile - correct answers✔✔The types and amounts of different nutrients a
food contains
Marketing - correct answers✔✔Advertising and promoting a food product to encourage
people to buy it
Cuisine - correct answers✔✔A traditional style of cooking and eating that has
developed in a country or region of the world
Senses - correct answers✔✔The ability of the body to react to things through sight,
taste, touch, hearing and smell (aroma)
Appetising - correct answers✔✔Food prepared, cooked and served so well that you
want to eat it
Taste buds - correct answers✔✔Special cells on the tongue that pick up flavours
Olfactory (smell) receptory - correct answers✔✔Special cells in the nose that pick up
aromas (smells)
Sensory analysis - correct answers✔✔A way of measuring the sensory qualities of food
Sensory descriptors - correct answers✔✔Words used to describe the characteristics of
a food
Food provenance - correct answers✔✔Where foods and ingredients originally come
from
Pesitsides - correct answers✔✔Chemicals sprayed onto plant crops to prevent insect
and mould attack and weed growth, and produce strong plants
Grown ingredients - correct answers✔✔Plants grown for food (herbs, fruits, vegetables,
cereals)
, Reared ingredients - correct answers✔✔Animals, birds and fish specially bred in
captivity and brought up to be ready to eat
Gathered ingredients - correct answers✔✔Plant foods gathered from the wild for eating
(e.g. herbs, edible fungi, berries, seaweed)
Caught ingredients - correct answers✔✔Animals, birds, fish and shellfish hunted and
caught from the wild for eating
Intensive farming - correct answers✔✔Growing or rearing large numbers of the same
type of plants or animals in one place
Organic farming - correct answers✔✔Producing food using manure, compost and
natural methods of weed, pest and disease control rather than chemicals
Genetic modification (GM) - correct answers✔✔A scientific technique that enables a
particular characteristic from one plant or animal to be inserted into the genes of
another
Climate change - correct answers✔✔Changes in the earth's temperature that can lead
to unusual and extreme weather conditions
Greenhouse gases - correct answers✔✔Form an insulating layer around the earth's
atmosphere, which traps heat and raises the earths temperature
Non-renewable energy - correct answers✔✔Energy produced from fossil fuels that
cannot be renewed once they are used up
Fossil Fuels - correct answers✔✔Fuels such as coal, oil and gas that were created over
millions of years by fossilised plants and animals
Carbon Footprint - correct answers✔✔A measure of the contribution of something (e.g.
food production) to the emission of greenhouse gases
Food security - correct answers✔✔The ability of some people to buy sufficient safe,
nutritious and affordable food
Sustainability - correct answers✔✔Producing food in a way that can be maintained over
a long period of time and protects the environment
Fair trade - correct answers✔✔A foundation set up to ensure that food producers in
developing countries get paid a fair price for their crops and have decent working and
living conditions
