Food Tech: Chapter 1&2 Flashcards
What is food spoilage
Food spoilage is the reduction in the quality of food by the determination in physical, chemical and sensory properties.
Causes of food spoilage
- yeast
- moulds
- enzymes
What is food poisoning?
An illness caused by consuming food that has been contaminated by bacteria, chemical or biological contamination.
What are yeasts?
- Yeasts are single-cell microscopic fungi that reproduce by a method called buddying.
- Wild yeasts spores float around the air causing spoilage
- Foods that is spoils include fruit juices and vinegar products
- yeast in bread is a special type and doesn’t spoil the food
What are moulds?
- Moulds are a form of fungi that reproduce by forming spores
- Foods that they can spoil include breads, cheese and citrus fruits
- They form a dark and fuzzy mass on surfaces
- Some moulds are used in blue cheese
What are enzymes?
- Enzymes are a form of biological catalysts in plants, animals and micro-organisms.
- They speed up reactions in foods without becoming involved in the reaction
- They are naturally present in foods
- Cause fruits to ripen
causes of food poisoning
- Bacterial contamination
- Chemical contamination
- Biological contamination
Biological contamination
Biological contamination occurs when we consume foods that are naturally harmful to human health.
e.g. some types of mushrooms, green potatoes
Conditions for bacteria to survive and multiply
FAT TOM:
food, (low) acidity, temperature, time, oxygen, moisture
Bacterial contamination
Happens through the poor handling of food
Chemical contamination
Chemical contamination when our food has been contaminated by chemicals due to misuse of agricultural compounds.
e.g. mercury in fish, herbicides and insecticides
How often do bacteria multiply and the name of the process
A bacteria can reproduce every 20minutes by splitting in half.
*this process is called binary fission
What does AQIS stand for? and their responsibility
Australian Quarantine and inspection service
- imported food inspection
- exports from Australia
- border protection and quarantine
Cross contamination
Cross contamination is transfer of bacteria from uncooked foods to food that has already been cooked or prepared.
How does cross contamination occur?
- storing raw and cooked foods together
- the sink
- chicken contains salmonella
- double dipping
- tea towel/chopping boards