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Food And Nutrition CTET MCQ

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Food And Nutrition CTET MCQ

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01 In rainy season, children face the problem of stomach ache due to

  1. germs
  2. chocolates
  3. meat
  4. mud

Option 1 – germs

02 Plague is

  1. viral disease
  2. fungal disease
  3. bacterial disease
  4. mineral disease

Option 3 – bacterial disease

03 How milk is pasteurised?

  1. By heating it at 100 C for 15 min or at 90 C for 5 min
  2. By heating it at 100 C for 15 min or at 90 C for 32 min
  3. By heating it at 71 C for 15 min or at 62 C for 5 sec
  4. By heating it at 71 C for 15 s or at 62 C for 32 min

Option 4 – By heating it at 71 C for 15 s or at 62 C for 32 min

04 Which of the following sentences represent correct impact of overcooking of food?

  1. food becomes easy to digest
  2. fats will be absorbed by the body
  3. most of nutrients will get destroyed
  4. food can be preserved for longer duration

Option 3 – most of nutrients will get destroyed

05 Which of the following statements is incorrect?

  1. night blindness is caused by deficiency of vitamin A
  2. bones and muscles are weak due to deficiency of vitamin D
  3. beauty vitamin name is given to vitamin E
  4. pellagra is caused by deficiency of vitamin B1

Option 4 – pellagra is caused by deficiency of vitamin B1

06 Which of the following pairs is incorrectly matched?

  1. iron : anaemia
  2. vitamin b5 : pellagra
  3. vitamin b3 : naicin
  4. vitamin k : blood clotting

Option 2 – vitamin b5 : pellagra

07 Consider the following statements and which of them is incorrect?

  1. kwashiokor is caused due to deficiency of protein
  2. marasmus is caused due to carbohydrates and fats
  3. tetanus and cholera is bacteria and water borne disease
  4. polio and hepatitis are caused by virus

Option 3 – tetanus and cholera is bacteria and water borne disease

08 Mira and Divya are young girls. Mira likes to eat samosas, cutlets and bread. Divya, on the other hand, takes an iron deficient diet. Which of the following disorders are mira and divya likely to suffer from respectively?

  1. obesity and scurvy
  2. scurvy and anaemia
  3. anaemia and night blindness
  4. obesity and anaemia

Option 4 – obesity and anaemia

09 It has been observed that the process of digestion is faster inside the stomach than outside because

  1. the digestive juices when kept outside the stomach become inactive
  2. the food is churned in the stomach thereby increasing the surface area for quicker enzyme action
  3. the digestive juices inside the stomach are acidic, while outside they are alkaline
  4. the amount of digestive juices produced in the stomach in the presence of food is much more

Which State of India experiences the maximum annual variation of rainfall?

(A) Meghalaya

(B) Kerala

(C) Rajasthan

(D) West Bengal

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Option 2 – the food is churned in the stomach thereby increasing the surface area for quicker enzyme action

10 Durga lives in a village and cooks food on a chulha (earthen stove) using wood or cow dung cakes as fuel. She has been suffering from severe cough for the last three months. This may be due to the

  1. smoke produced by burning fuels which may have caused her allergy
  2. old age and pollution inside and outside her hut
  3. carbon monoxide produced by burning fuel which may have been deposited in her respiratory tract
  4. soot produced by burning the fuels which may have been deposited in her respiratory tract

Option 4 – soot produced by burning the fuels which may have been deposited in her respiratory tract

11 Vitamins are substances

  1. required in small quantities to prevent deficiency diseases
  2. that increase our metabolic rate leading to loss of weight
  3. required as medicines to make us healthy
  4. that build muscles to keep us strong

Option 1 – required in small quantities to prevent deficiency diseases

12 Cooked rice can be prepared for a longer time in a refrigerator because

  1. moisture content in the food is reduced at low temperature
  2. refrigerators contain certain chemicals which kill the microbes
  3. microbes become inactive at low temperature
  4. microbes are destroyed and killed at low temperature

Option 3 – microbes become inactive at low temperature

13 Which one of the following is a good cooking practice?

  1. washing the vegetables nicely and then cutting
  2. cutting the vegetables and then washing these in running water
  3. keeping the vegetables in sunshine for some time before cutting and cooking
  4. cooking the vegetables by deep frying to kill bacteria

Option 1 – washing the vegetables nicely and then cutting

14 Weightlifters are generally required to make more muscles and body mass. For this purpose, they need to take a diet which is rich in

  1. proteins
  2. carbohydrates
  3. fats
  4. vitamins

Option 1 – proteins

15 In which one of the following groups are the words intimately related?

  1. mosquito, malaria, anemia, iron
  2. iron, malaria, anemia, blood
  3. iron, hemoglobin, anemia, amla
  4. mosquito, dengue, iron, jaggery

Pakyong Airport is located in?

(A) Sikkim

(B) Jammu and Kashmir

(C) Arunachal Pradesh

(D) Mizoram

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Option 1 – mosquito, malaria, anemia, iron

16 Dyslexia is associated mainly with difficulties in

  1. speaking and hearing
  2. reading
  3. hearing
  4. speaking

Option 2 – reading

17 If you go to Ahmedabad by train, then at Ahmedabad railway station you will find that most of the vendors are selling

  1. puri-shak and thanda doodh
  2. dhokla with chutney and lemon rice
  3. cholay-bhature and lassi
  4. idli-chutney and vada-chutney

Option 2 – dhokla with chutney and lemon rice

18 After diagnosis a doctor says to a patient that there is less haemoglobin in his blood. Which of the following should he eat to make up the deficiency of iron?

  1. amla, green leafy vegetables, jaggery
  2. rice, sugar, amla
  3. green leafy vegetables, wheat, orange
  4. jaggery, lemon, pea

Option 1 – amla, green leafy vegetables, jaggery

19 while discussing liking and disliking a student says, ‘ I and my mother both love to eat snakes. Whenever we feel like eating snakes, we go to a nearby hotel and eat Ling-hu-fen ‘ This student must belong to

  1. assam
  2. hong kong
  3. orissa
  4. arunachal pradesh

Option 2 – hong kong

20 Select from the following a group that comprises of methods of cooking food

  1. boiling, kneading, roasting
  2. baking, boiling, rolling
  3. frying, soaking, roasting
  4. baking, frying, roasting

Option 4 – baking, frying, roasting

21 In which of the following parts of our country do people grow eatables such as tapioca and coconut in their courtyards and they find food prepared using these to be very tasty?

  1. andhra pradesh
  2. assam
  3. goa
  4. kerala

Option 4 – kerala

22 A doctor prescribed some medicines to a patient and also suggested him to eat jaggery, amla and more green leafy vegetables. This patient must be suffering from

  1. fever
  2. typhoid
  3. malaria
  4. anemia

Option 4 – anemia

23 Reena loves mangoes. She wants to preserve these for winters. Which one of the following is a good way of preserving them?

  1. make ‘ aam papad ‘ and pickle
  2. prepare juice and store in an airtight container
  3. put in a plastic bag
  4. store in a refrigerator

Option 1 – make ‘ aam papad ‘ and pickle

24 In which one of the following states of our country do most people like to eat sea fish cooked in coconut oil?

  1. mizoram
  2. goa
  3. jammu and kashmir
  4. bihar

Option 2 – goa

25 Which one of the following is a set of diseases caused/spread by mosquitoes?

  1. chikungunya, malaria, typhoid
  2. cholera, dengue, malaria
  3. chikungunya, dengue, malaria
  4. chikungunya, cholera, typhoid

Option 3 – chikungunya, dengue, malaria

26 Which one of the following matches is not a correct way of food preservation? ( Food And Nutrition CTET MCQ )

  1. potato-chips
  2. milk-paneer
  3. apple-jam
  4. raw-mango-pickle

Option 2 – milk-paneer

27 Rehana goes to kerala along with her family. There she sees tall trees which are very different from those in her hometown, Shimla. Which trees could she have seen in kerala?

  1. coconut
  2. apple
  3. litchi
  4. pine

Option 1 – coconut

28 Glass jars and bottles are dried well n the sun before filling them with pickles. Why is it so?

  1. to increase their temperature
  2. to remove the dust from them
  3. to remove the moisture completely
  4. to make pickles tasty

Option 3 – to remove the moisture completely

29 Which of the following is a set of diseases spread by mosquitoes? ( Food And Nutrition CTET MCQ )

  1. typhoid, cholera, chikungunya
  2. malaria, HIV-AIDS, dengue
  3. HIV-AIDS, cholera, dengue
  4. dengue, malaria, chikungunya

Option 4 – dengue, malaria, chikungunya

30 Which of the following sets of eatables is rich in iron? ( Food And Nutrition CTET MCQ )

  1. amla, spinach, jaggery
  2. amla, spinach, potato
  3. amla, potato, tomato
  4. cabbage, okra, jaggery

Option 1 – amla, spinach, jaggery

31 The gastric juice in the stomach of human beings is ………… and aids in the digestion of food

  1. amphoteric
  2. neutral
  3. acidic
  4. alkaline

Option 3 – acidic

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