Saraswati Vidya Niketan

Integrated Science

Name: Form:

1. Two sets of ingredients were collected from the containers of TWO canned foods shown in
Figure 1.
Food 1 Food 2

INGREDIENTS: INGREDIENTS:
Chicken Corn starch
Beef Sugar
Monosodium Glutamate Egg
Water Water
Sodium Chloride Milk
Artificial flavouring Butter
Honey Lemon Juice
Orange juice
Peanut
Spice
Artificial flavouring

Figure 1 : Ingredients on Food cans

Read the lists of ingredients on the cans in Figure 1, then answer questions (a) to (e) below:

(a) Identify THREE food groups that are included in both food cans. (3 marks)
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(b) Identify one food group that is NOT present in can Food 1. (1 mark)
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(c) Giving reasons, identify the can of food that you would recommend to:
(i) An undernourished person (2 marks)
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(ii) Someone with scurvy (2 marks)
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(iii) Someone with Protein energy malnutrition (PEM) (2marks)
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(d) Identify ONE food additive in Food 1. (1 mark)
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(e) Peter is having one can of Food 1 as his main meal every day. Is this considered as a balanced
diet? Give one reason for your answer. (2 marks)
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2. The diagram shows an Iodine food test being conducted on different foods.
Pipette containing iodine

Food being tested

Petri dish
Figure 2: Iodine test

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(a) Two drops of iodine was added to the following foods:
Chicken, cooked rice, cheese, sausage, bread, honey.
(i) Name two foods that are listed above that would most likely change to blue black
when the iodine is added. (2 marks)
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(ii) Which nutrient is the iodine test used to test for? (1 mark)
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(b) Which vitamin or mineral is deficient in the diet of an individual to cause each of the
following diseases: (4marks)
(i) Rickets
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(ii) Night blindness
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(iii) Beri Beri
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(iv) Anaemia
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