Explore topic-wise MCQs in Food Engineering.

This section includes 12 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Food Engineering knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.

1.

Statement 1: Dry wines are the wines which contain little unfermented sugar.Statement 2: With the increase in the alcohol content, the growth of yeasts _____

A. True, increases
B. True, decreases
C. False, increases
D. False, decreases
Answer» C. False, increases
2.

Which of the following is true about cheeses?

A. To encourage growth throughout cheese mass
B. Fatty acids and ketones give rise to the sharp, peppery flavor of cheese
C. It is a common practice to pierce the pressed cheese when it is placed in a curing room
D. All of the mentioned
Answer» E.
3.

Statement 1: Which of the following cheeses have a semi soft texture?Statement 2: Which of the following blue cheese is made up of sheep milk?

A. Cottage, Blue cheese
B. Swiss, Stilton
C. Blue, Roquefort
D. Neither of the mentioned, Gorgonzola
Answer» D. Neither of the mentioned, Gorgonzola
4.

Statement 1: What is the use of salt in cheese?Statement 2: Eyes of the cheese are formed by the growth of certain bacteria. This makes the cheese round.

A. Removing water from cheese surface, false
B. Produces heavy protective rind, false
C. None of the mentioned
D. Neither of the mentioned, false
Answer» C. None of the mentioned
5.

Statement 1: Cheese foods have a lower aw than the natural foods.Statement 2: _____ cheese is coagulated with lactic acid.

A. True, Blue
B. True, Cottage
C. False, Swiss
D. False, All of the mentioned
Answer» C. False, Swiss
6.

Organisms such as _____ which attack higher carbohydrates injure the _____ of treated foods.

A. Cellulose, texture
B. Pectin, flavor
C. Hemicelluloses, quality
D. All of the mentioned, all of the mentioned
Answer» E.
7.

Which of the following is true about fermentation involving gas production?

A. The disadvantage of gas is that energy wise it is less efficient as they’ve no preserving power in concentrations found in comparison with lactic acid
B. Sugar molecules are altered to form acids, alcohols and carbon dioxide
C. Sodium chloride is added as a substrate as a controlling influence
D. All of the mentioned
Answer» E.
8.

Statement 1: The process of fermentation is – Sugar to acid to carbon dioxide and water.Statement 2: The fermenters that infect human and cause diseases are _____

A. True, Butryic fermenters
B. True, Lactic acid fermenters
C. False, Alcoholic fermenters
D. False, Yeast
Answer» B. True, Lactic acid fermenters
9.

Statement 1: Generation of lactose fermenting enzymes can occur in a few minutes.Statement 2: Microorganisms first attack _____

A. True, carbohydrates
B. True, fats
C. False, proteins
D. False, vitamins
Answer» B. True, fats
10.

Which of the following is a requisite for a microorganism to be used in fermentation and pickling?

A. Microorganisms must be able to grow on the substrate
B. Organism must have the ability to maintain physiological constancy under growing conditions
C. Desired chemical changes should take place in the required conditions
D. All of the mentioned
Answer» E.
11.

Which of the following gases are evolved during putrefaction?

A. Carbon dioxide
B. Hydrogen sulfide
C. Neither of the mentioned
D. Carbon dioxide & Hydrogen sulfide
Answer» E.
12.

Which of the following is the process of anaerobic degradation of proteinaceous materials?

A. Respiration
B. Fermentation
C. Putrefaction
D. All of the mentioned
Answer» D. All of the mentioned