Food Attributes Topic Test

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📚 Part 1: Multiple Choice

Circle the best answer for each question.

1. Which one is something you can see or feel about food?

Colour

Thickening

Making food rise

Foaming

2. Which one describes something an ingredient does when you cook with it?

Colour

Size

Thickening

Texture

3. You add flour to a sauce and it gets thick. What kind of attribute is this?

Physical attribute — something you can see or feel

Functional attribute — something an ingredient does in cooking

Both physical and functional

Neither

4. Tick ALL the physical attributes below:

Colour

Texture

Size

Foaming ability

✏️ Part 2: Short Answer Questions

Answer each question using short, clear sentences.

5. What is a physical attribute of food? Write one example.

6. What is a functional attribute of food? Write one example.

7. Look at a raw carrot. Write down two things you can see or feel about it.

8. When you heat cornflour in a sauce, the sauce gets thicker. What does this tell you about cornflour? Write one or two sentences.

9. Think of a food you have eaten before (for example, an apple, a piece of bread, or a bowl of pasta). Write its name. Then write two physical attributes — things you can see or feel about that food.

✅ Success Criteria

By the end of this topic, you should be able to:

Say what a physical attribute is and give an example (e.g. colour, texture, size).
Say what a functional attribute is and give an example (e.g. thickening, foaming, making food rise).
Name one ingredient and explain what it does in a simple recipe.

🌟 Support Strategies

Word bank: Use these words if you need help — physical, functional, colour, texture, size, thickening, foaming, makes food rise.
What does "makes food rise" mean? Some ingredients (like baking powder or yeast) make bubbles of gas when heated. These bubbles push the food upward so it puffs up — think of how bread or a cake grows bigger in the oven!
Visual help: Look at the food photos on the board. Can you point to a physical attribute? Can you name a functional one?
Extra support: Extra time or a scribe is available — just ask your teacher.

🚀 Extension Activities

Think of a food you eat at home. Write down two physical attributes and one functional attribute for an ingredient in it.
Some ingredients make food rise and puff up when they are heated (for example, baking powder in a muffin or yeast in bread). Can you think of another food where this happens? Write what you think causes it and why it is useful in cooking.
Plan a simple test to find out if cornflour or plain flour makes a thicker sauce. Write what you think will happen and why.