Food Industry Vocabulary Review Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• gourmet: sensitive and discriminating taste in food preferences
• food industry: the production, processing, storage, preparation, and distribution of food for consumption by living things
• retailer: the person or store that sells directly to the consumer
• wholesaler: a person who sells to the retailer
• distributor: stores food until a request is received to transport food to a regional market
• processor: anyone involved in cleaning, separating, handling, and preparing a food product before it is ready to be sold to the distributor
• grader: the person who inspects food for freshness, size, and quality; determines under what criteria it will be sold and consumed
• packer: the person or firm responsible for putting the food into containers, such as boxes, crates, bags, or bins, for shipment to the processing plant
• trucker: the person responsible for transporting the product anywhere along the way from farm to consumer
• harvester: the person who removes the edible portions from plants in the field
• producer: grows the crop and determines its readiness for harvest
• grades: uniform set of grading terms, based on quality standards
• citrus: produced mainly in florida, texas, arizona, and california
• maturity: the state or or quality of being fully ripe
• overripe: means that the plant is past the optimum maturity
• spoiled: means that chemical changes have taken place in the product that reduces its nutritional value or render it unfit to eat
• bran: the skin or covering of a wheat kernel
• endosperm: the inside part of a wheat kernel that will become flour
• germ: a new wheat plant inside the kernel
• edible: fit to eat