Question

Semi moist food items work on the principle of equilibrium, that is at a dry state, the food items absorb the solution and in the wet state, water is washed out with another liquid by diffusion.

(a) True

(b) False

The question was posed to me in a national level competition.

Enquiry is from Principles of Semi-Moist Foods-2 topic in section Principles of Semi-Moist Foods, Principles of Food Preservation by Fermentation, Principles of Food Pickling and Curing and Principles of Food Storage Stability of Food Engineering

Answer 1

The correct answer is (a) True

Easy explanation: Semi moist food items work on the principle of equilibrium, that is at a dry state, the food items absorb the solution and in the wet state, water is washed out with another liquid by diffusion.