Where food comes from WILL COME UP

Question 1

What is food provenance

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Answer 1

It refers to where and how the food was grown/produced

Question 2

What is food security

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Answer 2

Being able to afford nutritional and safe food

Question 3

What is food sustainability

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Answer 3

The food can be produced without wearing out the land/running out resources of the Earth

Question 4

What can people do to reduce their food waste

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Answer 4

Use excess at meals for leftovers eg lasagna, soup
Only buy what you need or freeze extra
Store food correctly to prevent it from spoiling early eg keeping meat in the fridge
Compost foods that can’t be eaten et vegetable peelings

Question 5

What are food miles

Answer 5

The distance the food travels from field to plate

Transport important - boat less environmental impact that plane

Question 6

How to reduce carbon footprint

Answer 6

Buy products that are grown in the UK
Not all cases - better to buy tomatoes from spain than in UK under glass as more energy is needed for heating the tomatoes than transport

Question 7

Buy foods locally

Answer 7

Biggest impact on food miles

Buy food from your local area is best, then region, then rest of UK

Question 8

Flour (wheat) into bread

Answer 8

Flour is mixed with water and yeast to make a dough
The dough is kneaded to work the gluten
The dough is proved to let the yeast ferment
The dough is baked in an oven

Question 9

Milk into cheese

Answer 9

Raw milk is pasteurised to kill off any unwanted bacteria
‘friendly’ bacteria sour and thicken the milk, rennet from calf stomachs is added
Rennet causes the milk to coagulate into solid cheese curds. The remaining liquid is called whey
They whey is removed by either draining, cutting, cooking, salting or stacking curds on top of each other
The curds are pressed to form blocks of cheese and placed in temperature-controlled storage to mature and develop taste and texture
Bacteria or moulds may be added to change the flavour

Question 10

Fruit turned into jam

Answer 10

Crushed fruit is mixed with sugar
The mixture is boiled and left to cool
Pectin thickens the jam as it cools
Jam is poured into glass jars which are sealed to extend its shelf life

Question 11

Fruit turned into jelly

Answer 11

Fruit it mixed with sugar and heated
Gelatine is soaked in cold water to soften and then added to the hot mixture
The mixture is sieved to remove lumps or pips
The mixture is refrigerated - the gelatine thickens or sets the jelly