Quiz 4 Flashcards
What are practices for potato handling and storage?
Do not refrigerate
Continue to live after harvest
Avoid dropping or bruising
Minimize exposure to light because it causes solanin to develop from chlorophyll
What toxins produced and potatoes when exposed to light?
Solanin
What are the three classifications of potatoes?
Starchy are low moisture lotion for high starch good for baking frying master roasted\try methods do not hold well together when cooked
Waxy are high moisture low starch hold you gather better but did not collapse easily good for soups stews potato salad boiling and roasting
In between or all purpose
Define cracking
Whole wheat grains that have been crushed a cut into smaller pieces
Define grinding
Reducing to powder
Define hulling
The hull is smashed off the grain leaving a whole grain
Define pearling
The bran is gently leaked off; no longer a grain
Resistant starch
No digested in SI but may ferment in Colon
What are grains?
Grasses that bear edible seeds
What are parts the parts of a grain and what nutrients do they provide?
The bran: fiber, b complex, minerals
Endosperm: starch, vitamins protein, b vitamins
Germ: fat, minerals, vitamin b1 and e, phytochemicals
Why are whole grains so nutritious?
Because they include all parts of the grain
The link between protein content and gluten content?
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What is needed to make a gluten-free flour blend mimic flour?
40:60 whole grain to starch
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What grains and seeds are complete proteins?
Amaranth, buckwheat, chia, quinoa
Which grains and seeds are gluten free?
White and brown rice, amaranth, sweet potato, corn starch, almond, chestnuts, coconut and hazelnut
Semolina
Courser endosperm produced from milling durum that’s used to make pasta
Durum
Hard grain with high protein and gluten content
Define vegetables
Any herbaceous plant that can be wholly or partially eaten
What are the classification of veggies?
Cabbage, fruit-veggies, gourds, greens, pods and seeds, mushrooms and truffles, onions, roots and tubers, stalks and baby
Examples of cabbage
Broccoli and Brussel sprouts