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Heated Canned Foods problems


  • 1. Acid foods with a pH between 4.5 and 3.7 usually are spoiled by

  • Options
  • A. B. coagulans
  • B. Saccharolytic anaerobe
  • C. both (a) and (b)
  • D. none of these
  • Discuss
  • 2. Canned meat and fish exhibit spoilage by

  • Options
  • A. Bacillus species
  • B. Clostridium species
  • C. both (a) and (b)
  • D. Saccharomyces
  • Discuss
  • 3. The immediate source of the flat sour bacteria is usually the

  • Options
  • A. plant equipment
  • B. sugar
  • C. starch
  • D. soil
  • Discuss
  • 4. Canned sweetened condensed milk may become thickened by

  • Options
  • A. Bacillus species
  • B. Clostridium species
  • C. Micrococcus species
  • D. Saccharomyces species
  • Discuss
  • 5. The ability of B. coagulans to grow in tomato juice depends upon the

  • Options
  • A. number of spores present
  • B. the availability of oxygen
  • C. the pH of the juice
  • D. all of these
  • Discuss
  • 6. Medium acid foods with a pH between 5.3 and 4.5 are likely to undergo

  • Options
  • A. flat sour spoilage
  • B. putrefaction
  • C. both (a) and (b)
  • D. TA spoilage
  • Discuss
  • 7. Flat sour spoilage of acid foods is caused by

  • Options
  • A. B. coagulans
  • B. B. pepo
  • C. both (a) and (b)
  • D. B. stearothermophillus
  • Discuss
  • 8. The putrifactive anaerobes grow best in the

  • Options
  • A. low acid canned foods
  • B. medium acid canned foods
  • C. high acid canned foods
  • D. any of these
  • Discuss
  • 9. High acid foods with a pH < 3.7 undergo spoilage by

  • Options
  • A. Saccharolytic anaerobe
  • B. B. coagulans
  • C. both (a) and (b)
  • D. do not undergo spoilage by microorganisms
  • Discuss

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