NFSC 300 TAMU Exam 1 Questions and Answers Latest Update 2025 (Already Passed)

NFSC 300 TAMU Exam 1 Questions and Answers Latest Update 2025 (Already Passed) Some reasons that people use food are: - Answers religious reasons, culture or tradition Sorghum rice is the most common in: - Answers Africa Who is Cristeta Comeford? - Answers the first female and first minority who was a chef at the White House (2005) What is the biggest religion? 2nd biggest? - Answers Christianity, Islam Some different denominations of Christianity are: - Answers Eastern Orthodox, Protestants, Catholics, Rasta Farianism Halal means: - Answers permitted, lawful, allowed in the Muslim diet Haram means: - Answers prohibited, not allowed to use or consume Halal food products are permissible according to: - Answers the Quran What is the Quran? - Answers Holy book of Islam Who is "The Prophet" of Islam? - Answers Muhammad The term to describe unsure and doubtful products in Muslim consumption: - Answers Mashbooh What does Makrooh mean? - Answers someone's dislike for certain products or actions Example of something Makrooh: - Answers smoking Zabiha/Dabiha definition: - Answers meat that is slaughtered by Muslims using Muslim standards Basic food laws are in the: - Answers Quran Muslim belief on amount of food consumed: - Answers one should eat for good health and should only eat enough so that 2/3 of stomach is filled Muslims fast during: - Answers Ramadan Feast days include: - Answers Eid al-Fitr & Eid al-Azha Why do Muslims fast during Ramadan? - Answers earns approval of God, wipes out sins, and gain understanding of suffering of the poor 1 out of ______ people are Muslim - Answers 5 Muslims believe that all things God made are: - Answers permitted, Quran only says what you can't eat Muslims believe that it is God's right to: - Answers make food lawful or unlawful Prohibiting what is permitted is claiming: - Answers you're equal to God Basic reason for prohibition is to: - Answers avoid impurity or harmfulness God prohibited ____________ things and replaced them with: - Answers unnecessary, better options If something is prohibited then: - Answers everything made from it is also not allowed Unlawful to __________ God's prohibition Example: - Answers legalize feeding a pig Halal food so it becomes Halal What if someone with good intentions breaks food practices? - Answers it is not acceptable even with good intentions If something is doubtful then: - Answers it should be avoided Unlawful things are prohibited regardless of: - Answers race, gender, etc. Necessity dictates: - Answers exceptions if a person is going to die Carrions, dead animals that didn't die from slaughter are (Haram/Halal) Products with blood are (Haram/Halal) Vegetables are (Haram/Halal) - Answers Haram, Haram, Halal Pork is: - Answers Haram Animals slaughtered without _________________ are Haram - Answers saying the name of God If blood cannot fully drain from an animal then: - Answers it is Haram Haram carnivores examples: - Answers lions, dogs, bears, cats, pigs, boar Haram bird examples: - Answers birds with sharp claws that are birds of prey such as falcons, eagles, owls, vultures Land animals that are Haram include: - Answers frogs, snakes, turtles Most important Haram foods (there's 5): - Answers pork, alcohol, blood, dead animals, animals slaughtered without saying name of God Some examples of Halal meats: - Answers goats, deer, camel, cattle, sheep, rabbits Examples of Haram meat: - Answers horses and donkeys and pork Sunni vs. Shia opinion on consuming seafood: - Answers Sunni denomination can eat fish and shia can only eat fish w/scales Muslim belief on consumption of milk and eggs: - Answers if it came from a Halal animal then it is Halal Muslim belief on consumption of veggies and plants: - Answers All are Halal except drugs and alcohol Common Food Ingredients that you need to know the source of: - Answers gelatin, glycerin, emulsifiers, enzymes, alcohol, animal fats and proteins, flavoring Some Halal birds are: - Answers chickens, ducks, turkey, quail, pigeons Halal Check Points for meat (9): - Answers 1. Have Halal animal 2. Must be raised in humane conditions 3. If animal is stunned it still has to be alive while slaughtering and die from bleeding 4. Knife has to be very sharp 5. Animal must be slaughtered by adult Muslim 6. Must cut front part of neck and cut through everything without severing their head 7. Say God's name while cutting the throat 8. Don't cut off extremities while animal is still alive 9. packaged in Halal materials What is captive bolt stunning? - Answers Stunning gun stuns the animal and reduces it instantly unconscious without causing pain, the bolt is driven into the animal's brain What is electric stunning? - Answers -Used commercially on sheep and goats. -Effective and induces instantaneous insensibility. - a minimum of 1.25 amps must be passed through the animals brain to reliably induce insensibility.