Tiny forms of life, both plants and animals, only visible under a microscope
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Food spoilage
Making food unfit and unsafe to eat
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Contaminate
Making food unsafe to eat by allowing it to come into contact with mirco-orgaisms that will grow and multiply in it
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Pathogenic
Something that is capable of causing illness
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Food Poisoning
An illness caused by micro-organisms contaminating food
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High-risk foods
Food that contain a lot moisture and nutrients, especially protein (eg:milk and cream) and easily support the growth of pahtogenic micro-organisms particularly bacteria.
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Enzyme
The name given to natural substances in living thingd which act as catalysts
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Ripening
The process of a fruit or vegetable maturing so that it is ready to eat
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Enzymic browning
The discolouration of a fruit or vegetable due to the reaction of enzymes with plant cell substances and oxygen from the air
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Oxidation
When substances combine with oxygen
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Germinate
This is the process that happens when a spore from a mould starts to grow on a food
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Non-pathogenic
A micro-organism that is not harmful to humans and does not cause food poisoning
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Pasteurisation
This means heating fresh milk to 72 degrees for 15 seconds in order to kill pathogenic micro-organisms that may be in it
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Homogenised
Forcing milk under high pressure through a fine sieve, in order to break up the fat into tiny droplets.
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
Making food unfit and unsafe to eat
Back
Food spoilage
Card 3
Front
Making food unsafe to eat by allowing it to come into contact with mirco-orgaisms that will grow and multiply in it
Back
Card 4
Front
Something that is capable of causing illness
Back
Card 5
Front
An illness caused by micro-organisms contaminating food
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