Fruit and Vegetable Trivia Quiz Questions With Answers
What are the two vegetables used to make vichyssoise?
A: Leek and Potato
A dish served" A la Crecy" is garnished with what?
A: Carrots
What is the Latin name for grapefruit?
A: Citrus Grandis
What is the main ingredient of sauce Lyonnaise?
A: Onions
What kind of fruit is a pearmain?
A: Apple
What is the name of the vegetable that is also a
flower ?
A: Broccoli
Which state produces the most potatoes ?
A: Idaho
What kind of fruit is a kumquat?
A: Small Orange
Onions owe their distinctive smell to what, taken in when
growing?
A: Sulphur
What vegetable gets its name from old French / Latin for
milk?
A: Lettuce
Name the country that grew the first orange?
A: China
What is the world's most popular
green vegetable is what?
A: Lettuce
What was the original name for Garlic?
A: The Spear Leek
Which vegetable got its name from a precious stone?
A: Onion - In Latin unio means large pearl
The Chinese apple is also known as what type of fruit?
A: Pomegranate
A Munster plum is what type of
food?
A: Potato
The main ingredient in Borsch is what?
A: Beetroot
The Italian Date is a common name of what fruit?
A: Tamarind
What do you add to vegetables to make the dish salmagundi?
A: Duck or
Chicken
What fruit has more protein than any other?
A: Avocado
Nectarines are one of many fruits that can be easily what?
A: Stewed.
Many "vegetables" in culinary parlance are botanical fruits, including what?
A: The bell pepper, cucumber, eggplant, green bean,
okra, pumpkin, squash,
tomato, and zucchini.
Olive fruit is pressed for what?
A: Olive oil.
Spices like allspice, black pepper, paprika, and vanilla are derived from what?
A: Berries.
Fresh fruits are generally high in what?
A: Fiber, vitamin C, and water.
Bayberry fruits provide a wax often used to make what?
A: Candles.
Fruits of opium poppy are the source of opium, which contains what drugs?
A: Codeine and morphine, as well as the biologically inactive chemical theabaine from which the drug oxycodone is synthesized.
Osage orange fruits are used to repel what?
A: Cockroaches.
Dried gourds are used as what?
A: Bird houses, cups, decorations, dishes, musical instruments, and water jugs.
The spiny fruit of burdock or cocklebur inspired the
invention of what?
A: Velcro.
Coir fiber from coconut shells is used for what?
A: Brushes, doormats, floor tiles, insulation, mattresses, sacking, and as a growing medium for container plants.
What should be done to all fruits and vegetables before eating?
A: They should be rinsed.
Fruits and vegetables should be kept separate from what?
A: Raw foods like meat, poultry, and
seafood.
All cut, peeled, or cooked fruits and vegetables should be refrigerated within how long?
A: Two hours.
Fruit allergies make up about what percentage of all food related allergies?
A: About 10%.
The meaning of "vegetable" as a "plant grown for food" was not established until when?
A: The 18th century.
In 1767, the word was specifically used to mean what?
A: A "plant cultivated for food, an edible herb or root".
The year 1955 saw the first use of what shortened, slang term?
A: "veggie".
Vegetables play an important role in human what?
A: Nutrition.
During storage, leafy vegetables lose what?
A: Moisture, and the vitamin C in them degrades rapidly.
Beans are high in what?
A: Protein, complex carbohydrates, folate, and
iron.
By the Middle Ages, cabbage had become a prominent part of what?
A: European cuisine.
What country has the highest annual per capita consumption of cabbage at 20 kilograms (44 lb)?
A: Russia.
Cabbage is a rich source of what two vitamins?
A: Vitamin C and vitamin K.
What are root vegetables?
A: Root vegetables are underground plant parts eaten by humans as food.
Root vegetables are generally storage organs, enlarged to store what?
A: Energy in the form of carbohydrates.
Many root vegetables keep well in root cellars, lasting how long?
A: Several months.
How many species of plants with edible leaves are known?
A: Nearly one thousand.
The vitamin K content of leaf vegetables is particularly what?
A: High.
If leaves are cooked for food, they may be referred to as what?
A: Boiled greens.
Celery seed is also used as a what?
A: A spice and its extracts have been used in herbal medicine.
Celery, onions, and bell peppers are the "what" of
Louisiana Creole and Cajun cuisine?
A: Holy trinity.
The seeds can be ground and mixed with
salt, to produce what?
A: Celery salt.
Celery is among a small group of foods (headed by peanuts) that appear to provoke what?
A: The most severe allergic reactions.
Potatoes were introduced to Europe in the second half of the 16th century by whom?
A: The Spanish.
How many potato varieties are there worldwide?
A: There are about 5,000.
Potatoes are used to brew alcoholic beverages such as what?
A: Vodka, poitín, or akvavit.
Potato starch is used in the food industry as a what?
A: A thickener and binder for soups and sauces.
Potato skins, along with
honey, are a folk remedy for what in India?
A: Burns.
