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  • Question
  • Spirit vinegar is produced from


  • Options
  • A. fruit juices
  • B. malted grain
  • C. ethanol
  • D. ale

  • Correct Answer
  • ethanol 


  • Vinegar and Citric Acid problems


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    • 1. Candida utilis is used for the fermentation of waste sulphate liquor since it ferments

    • Options
    • A. hexoses only
    • B. pentoses only
    • C. both hexoses and pentoses
    • D. none of these
    • Discuss
    • 2. Ethanol is produced by

    • Options
    • A. continuous fermentation
    • B. batch fermentation
    • C. both (a) and (b)
    • D. none of these
    • Discuss
    • 3. Which of the following organism is not used in any of the traditional industrial fermentation?

    • Options
    • A. E. coli
    • B. Yeast
    • C. Bacillus
    • D. Pseudomonas
    • Discuss
    • 4. How is air supply to the fermentor sterilized?

    • Options
    • A. By heat filtration
    • B. Filtration through fibrous material
    • C. Filtration through granular material
    • D. All of the above
    • Discuss
    • 5. The fermentor can be sterilized by

    • Options
    • A. keeping it in the oven
    • B. steam under pressure
    • C. boiling
    • D. all of these
    • Discuss
    • 6. For the recovery of citric acid after fermentation, Ca(OH)2 is added to the slurry to

    • Options
    • A. precipitate calcium carbonate
    • B. precipitate calcium citrate
    • C. precipitate calcium phosphate
    • D. precipitate calcium sulphate
    • Discuss
    • 7. Ethanol is oxidized to acetic acid aerobically using

    • Options
    • A. Acetobacter
    • B. Gluconobacter
    • C. both (a) and (b)
    • D. Lactobacillus
    • Discuss
    • 8. Vinegar production consists of

    • Options
    • A. aerobic fermentation
    • B. anaerobic fermentation
    • C. aerobic fermentation followed by anaerobic fermentation
    • D. anaerobic fermentation followed by aerobic fermentation
    • Discuss
    • 9. In koji process for the fermentation to produce citric acid,

    • Options
    • A. A. niger is used with solid substrate as sweet potato
    • B. A. niger floats on the surface of solution
    • C. Fungal mycelium grows through out the solution in a deep tank
    • D. both (a) and (b)
    • Discuss
    • 10. During recovery step of citric acid, calcium citrate formed is treated with which of the following acid to precipitate calcium?

    • Options
    • A. HCl
    • B. HNO3
    • C. H2SO4
    • D. None of these
    • Discuss


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