SENIOR FIVE

END OF TERM ONE EXAMINATIONS, 2015

FOODS AND NUTRITION
PAPER 1
640/1

TIME: 3 HOURS

ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS

SECTION A: NUTRITION

1(a) Discuss the factors that affect the Basal Metabolic Rate of an individual

(b) Define the following terms;

(i) Food habits

(ii) Food fad
(iii) Food superstitions
(iv) Food fallacy
(v) Food quack
(vi) Food Taboos
(vii) Food myth

(c) Explain the factors that affect the pattern of food intake in A human body

(d) Explain the following terms:-

(i) Optimal nutrition
(ii) Malnutrition

2.(a) Describe the following terms involved in the study of foods and nutrition.
(i) Nutritional status
(ii) Nutritional deficiencies
(iii) Dietetics
(iv) Food
(v) Nutrition

(b) If you have been requested to make daily energy requirement recommendations
for the various people in your school community. What factors would you bear in
minds?

(c) Discuss the social functions of food in a community.

(d) Describe the two phases involved in metabolism.

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3, (a) What are the functions of the different ingredients in cake making
(b) Describe the changes that take place after meat is slaughtered.
(c) Describe the changes that take place during the cooking of meat
(d) What causes meat to be tough?

4 (a) Discuss the structure of meat.

(b) Discuss the nutritive value of meat.
(c) How would you make tough cuts of meat tender?
(d) Discuss the classification of cakes.