Almost Daily Trivia Quiz #132 -  Fun Food Trivia Quiz - Salads, Fruits, Vegetables, Diets, Meals, and More!

Food trivia questions and answers.

1. What food is the leading source of salmonella poisoning?
    
2. What company first condensed soup in 1898?
    
3. What nutty legume accounts for one sixth of the world's vegetable oil production?
    
4. What country saw the cultivation of the first potato, in 200 A.D.?
    
5. What type of lettuce was called Crisphead until the 1920s?
    
6. What tree gives us prunes?
    
7. What type of chocolate was first developed for public consumption in Vevey, Switzerland in 1875?
    
8. What added ingredient keeps confectioners' sugar from clumping?
    
9. What edible comes in crimmini, morel, oyster and wood ear varieties?
    
10. What newly-imported substance caused the first major outbreak of tooth decay in Europe, in the1500's?
     
11. What fat substitute got FDA approval for use in snack foods, despite reports of diarrhea and cramps?
     
12. What ingredient in fresh milk is eventually devoured by bacteria, causing the sour taste?
     
13. What uncooked meat is a trichina worm most likely to make a home in?
     
14. What baking ingredient, sprayed at high pressure, did the U.S. Air Force replace its toxic paint stripper with?
     
15. What staple is laced with up to 16 additives including plaster of paris, to stay fresh?
     
16. What falling fruit supposedly inspired Isaac Newton to write the laws of gravity?
     
17. What method of preserving food did the Incas first use, on potatoes?
     
18. What deli sandwich topped Dateline NBC's list for total fat content - a Reuben, BLT  or tuna salad with mayo?
     
19. What drupaceous fruit were Hawaiian women once forbidden by law to eat?
     
20. What hit the market alongside spinach as the first frozen veggies?
     
21. How many sizes of chicken eggs does the USDA recognize, including peewee?
     
22. What are de-headed, de-veined an sorted by size in a laitram machine?
     
23. What's the only fish that produces real caviar, according to the FDA?
     
24. What type of egg will yield 11 and one-half average-size omelettes?
     
25. What's the groundnut better known as?
     
26. What crystalline salt is frequently used to enhance the flavor to TV dinners?
     
27. What sticky sweetener was traditionally used as an antiseptic ointment for cuts and burns?
     
28. What should your diet be high in to lessen the chance of colon cancer, according to a 1990 study?
     
29. What nut do two-thirds of its U. S. producers sell through Blue Diamond?
     

Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz # 132 - Food and Eating Trivia.

1. Chicken.
2. Campbell's.
3. The peanut.
4. South America.
5. Iceberg lettuce.
6. The plum tree.
7. Milk Chocolate.
8. Corn starch.
9. Mushrooms.
10. Sugar.
11. Olestra.
12. Lactose.
13. Pork. 
14. Baking soda.
15. Bread.
16. An Apple.
17. Freeze-drying.
18. Tuna salad with mayo.
19. The coconut. 
20. Peas. 
21. Six. 
22. Shrimp. 
23. Sturgeon. 
24. An Ostrich egg.
25. The peanut. 
26. Monosodium glutamate. 
27. Honey.
28. Fiber.
29. The Almond.