Principles of Food Preservation MCQs

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Q41.
Statement 1: The cold point of a food item getting heated up by convection has its cold point at the centre of the container on the vertical axis.
Statement 2: The cold point of a food item getting heated up by conduction has its cold point at the bottom of the container on the vertical axis.
Discuss
Answer: (c).False, False
Q42.
For canning technology, the cold point of the can is determined by soldering stuffing boxes and different depths in different boxes, a thermocouple in each box and a potentiometer in each box.
Discuss
Answer: (a).True
Q43.
Which of the following parameter is important to know and to plot the heating and cooling curves?
Discuss
Answer: (d).All of the mentioned
Q44.
The period of time elapsed from placing the cans into the retort and starting to heat until the retort reaches processing temperature is termed as _____
Discuss
Answer: (d).Come-up-time
Q45.
Statement 1: The time required in minutes for a heating/cooling curve to traverse one log cycle is represented by its slope and denoted as fh and fc respectively.
Statement 2: The time when heating started is called the zero time.
Discuss
Answer: (a).True, False
Q46.
The rate of destruction of an organism per minute at any given temperature in a process is the reciprocal of the time in minutes.
Discuss
Answer: (a).True
Q47.
For the thermal death time curve, C= minutes to destroy the organism at 121 °C. Z= slope of thermal death time curve in °C and T= temperature under consideration and t= time taken to destroy. Then, which of the following represents the lethal rate at T?
Discuss
Answer: (d).C/t
Q48.
For the thermal death time curve, C= minutes to destroy the organism at 121 °C. Z=slope of thermal death time curve in °C and T= temperature under consideration and t= time taken to destroy. Which of the following is read from the graphs?
Discuss
Answer: (c).t/C
Discuss
Answer: (a).Area under the curve
Q50.
Statement 1: In thermal death time curve, after plotting C/t values from it, C value should be equal to C₀ value.
Statement 2: When C₀ value versus process time in minutes is plotted on a linear graph paper, a straight line is obtained.
Discuss
Answer: (b).True, True
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