Close Up Food Quiz

1. A halved food has creamy pale-green flesh surrounding one large, smooth, round pit. What is it?

2. The close-up shows hundreds of tiny green flower buds packed into branching clusters on a thick green stalk. What is it?

3. A close view shows dry, slender, semi-translucent grains that are each several times longer than they are wide. Which food best fits?

4. A fruit cross-section has vivid green flesh, a pale center, and a ring of tiny black seeds. Which fruit is shown?

5. A cross-section reveals crisp, tightly nested rings alternating between purple-red and white. Which ingredient was cut?

6. A cut fruit contains many jewel-like red arils, each with juicy flesh wrapped around a seed and held within pale membranes. Which fruit is it?

7. During preparation, a cook peels away a dry, papery skin and separates the bulb beneath it into several curved cloves. Which ingredient is this?

8. Looking underneath this food's cap, you see many thin plates radiating outward from a central stem. What type of food is it?

9. A cook slices a fruit and sees bright orange, wedge-shaped segments enclosed by thin membranes beneath white pith. Which fruit best matches?

10. A hard, glossy golden kernel contains enough moisture to build pressure when heated, causing its starch to burst outward. Which food is it?

11. At a fish counter, a fillet is identified by its orange-pink flesh crossed by thin white lines of fat. Which fish is the best match?

12. A baker cuts open a pastry and finds a light honeycomb interior created by many thin, buttery laminated layers. Which pastry is it?

13. A spice is made from thin reddish-brown bark rolled into layered, hollow quills. Which spice is it?

14. When warmed, this moist, milky-white cheese pulls into long elastic strands rather than crumbling or remaining spoon-soft. Which cheese is it?

15. A broken square is nearly black-brown, has a firm clean snap, and tastes distinctly bitter rather than milky or caramel-like. What is it?

16. A close surface is bright red and dotted with many tiny, pale seed-like structures on the outside. Which food is it?