FST midterm 4 Test Questions Answered Correctly Latest Version 2025-2026
how did humans figure out what food were safe to eat? - Answers trial and error, watching
animals, senses and instinct
which type of cutlery did Louis XIV help populize? - Answers forks
what were table manners like in the middle ages? - Answers haute cuisine and etiquette
/manners developed
who encouraged people not to spit at the dinner table? - Answers Erasmus
rich or poor, one drink that was popular throughout history is - Answers alcohol
which crops are the three sisters? - Answers corn, beans, and squash
why did the new england diet avoid spicy foods? - Answers
which american food tradition featured lots of seasoning and fried foods? - Answers they
wanted their food to be plain and pious (boiled meats and potatoes), spice is the enemy
which religious society influenced the mid-atlantic tradition? - Answers Quakerism
true or false: foods that were animal feed in europe started to be included in the american diet -
Answers true
what food traditions did german immigrants bring? - Answers sausage, beer, pastries, and sour
flavors
what emerged from industrialization in the late 1800s? - Answers mass food processing (cereal
and canned goods)
what did Gustavus Swift and Swift & Co. do - Answers mechanized the first large scale slaughter
facility and built the first refrigerated railroad car
The US meatpacking industry began in which city? - Answers Chicago
what was the poison squad? - Answers Harvey Washington Wiley: hosted dinner parties to see if
ingredients were dangerous
what did the poison squad lead to? - Answers the development of the food and drug
administration
what was the first fast food restaurant in the US? - Answers White Castle in 1921
when did cafeterias become a thing? - Answers 1920
"You are what you eat" / Graham Cracker. Likes: whole wheat graham crackers. Dislikes: meat
, alcohol, condiments - Answers Rev Sylvester Graham
First to market health foods / breakfast cereal / granola. Likes: "The water cure", vegetarianism,
anything Sylvester Graham liked - Answers James Caleb Jackson
Seventh day adventist founding member / Hired Kellogg. Likes: Health reform institutions.
Dislikes: Meat, spices, tobacco, alcohol - Answers Sister Ellen White
Inventor of flaked cereal / obsessed with bowel health. Likes: Battlecreek sanitarium,
vegetarianism, inventing peanut butter, cheap labor, celebs - Answers Dr. J Harvey Kellogg
Yoghurt researcher / nobel prize winner - Answers Ellie Metchnicoff
Mastication / really into chewing food - Answers Horace Fletcher
Temperance movement / prohibition of alcohol - Answers Cary A. Nation
Nabisco founder / first mass produced ready to eat cereal - Answers Henry D. Perky
Post founder / grape nuts / enemy to Kellogg - Answers Charles W. Post
The French father of canning in 1806 - Answers Nicholas Appert
examples of health food movements due to social anxiety - Answers organic, veganism,
functional foods, paleo diets
What is Clarence Birdseye the father of? - Answers frozen foods
Who invented and popularized flaked cereal? - Answers Dr. J Harvey Kellogg
True of false: social anxiety does not play a role in health food movements - Answers false
mastication involves _____ your food for a long time - Answers chewing
what is BMI? - Answers Body Mass Index; a measure of body weight relative to height
calculation of BMI - Answers (weight in lbs x 703)/(height in inches)^2
BMI categories - Answers underweight = <18.5, desirable weight= 18.5-24.9, overweight= 25-
29.9, obese= >30
how many children in california are overweight or obese - Answers 1 in 3
what is the race with the least obesity rates? - Answers non hispanic asian adults
what is the race with the 2nd least obesity rates? - Answers non-hispanic white adults
what is the race with the 2nd worst obesity rates? - Answers hispanic adults
how did humans figure out what food were safe to eat? - Answers trial and error, watching
animals, senses and instinct
which type of cutlery did Louis XIV help populize? - Answers forks
what were table manners like in the middle ages? - Answers haute cuisine and etiquette
/manners developed
who encouraged people not to spit at the dinner table? - Answers Erasmus
rich or poor, one drink that was popular throughout history is - Answers alcohol
which crops are the three sisters? - Answers corn, beans, and squash
why did the new england diet avoid spicy foods? - Answers
which american food tradition featured lots of seasoning and fried foods? - Answers they
wanted their food to be plain and pious (boiled meats and potatoes), spice is the enemy
which religious society influenced the mid-atlantic tradition? - Answers Quakerism
true or false: foods that were animal feed in europe started to be included in the american diet -
Answers true
what food traditions did german immigrants bring? - Answers sausage, beer, pastries, and sour
flavors
what emerged from industrialization in the late 1800s? - Answers mass food processing (cereal
and canned goods)
what did Gustavus Swift and Swift & Co. do - Answers mechanized the first large scale slaughter
facility and built the first refrigerated railroad car
The US meatpacking industry began in which city? - Answers Chicago
what was the poison squad? - Answers Harvey Washington Wiley: hosted dinner parties to see if
ingredients were dangerous
what did the poison squad lead to? - Answers the development of the food and drug
administration
what was the first fast food restaurant in the US? - Answers White Castle in 1921
when did cafeterias become a thing? - Answers 1920
"You are what you eat" / Graham Cracker. Likes: whole wheat graham crackers. Dislikes: meat
, alcohol, condiments - Answers Rev Sylvester Graham
First to market health foods / breakfast cereal / granola. Likes: "The water cure", vegetarianism,
anything Sylvester Graham liked - Answers James Caleb Jackson
Seventh day adventist founding member / Hired Kellogg. Likes: Health reform institutions.
Dislikes: Meat, spices, tobacco, alcohol - Answers Sister Ellen White
Inventor of flaked cereal / obsessed with bowel health. Likes: Battlecreek sanitarium,
vegetarianism, inventing peanut butter, cheap labor, celebs - Answers Dr. J Harvey Kellogg
Yoghurt researcher / nobel prize winner - Answers Ellie Metchnicoff
Mastication / really into chewing food - Answers Horace Fletcher
Temperance movement / prohibition of alcohol - Answers Cary A. Nation
Nabisco founder / first mass produced ready to eat cereal - Answers Henry D. Perky
Post founder / grape nuts / enemy to Kellogg - Answers Charles W. Post
The French father of canning in 1806 - Answers Nicholas Appert
examples of health food movements due to social anxiety - Answers organic, veganism,
functional foods, paleo diets
What is Clarence Birdseye the father of? - Answers frozen foods
Who invented and popularized flaked cereal? - Answers Dr. J Harvey Kellogg
True of false: social anxiety does not play a role in health food movements - Answers false
mastication involves _____ your food for a long time - Answers chewing
what is BMI? - Answers Body Mass Index; a measure of body weight relative to height
calculation of BMI - Answers (weight in lbs x 703)/(height in inches)^2
BMI categories - Answers underweight = <18.5, desirable weight= 18.5-24.9, overweight= 25-
29.9, obese= >30
how many children in california are overweight or obese - Answers 1 in 3
what is the race with the least obesity rates? - Answers non hispanic asian adults
what is the race with the 2nd least obesity rates? - Answers non-hispanic white adults
what is the race with the 2nd worst obesity rates? - Answers hispanic adults
