jelly
Pectin helps fruit jelly form a gel. This topic is part of Preserves within Food & Drink. This page currently draws on 13 supporting questions, with answers and bonus facts available below.
jelly trivia questions
Fruit jelly is usually made from fruit juice, sugar, and what setting substance?
Answer: Pectin
Bonus fact: Pectin helps fruit jelly form a gel.
How does traditional jelly differ from jam?
Answer: Jelly is usually made from strained juice
Bonus fact: Jam usually contains crushed or chopped fruit, while jelly is generally made from juice.
What three factors are especially important for setting traditional fruit jelly?
Answer: Pectin, sugar, and acid
Bonus fact: The right balance of pectin, sugar, and acidity allows a firm gel to form.
A jelly bean is what type of food?
Answer: Candy
Bonus fact: Jelly beans have soft centers and sugar shells.
What shape are jelly beans designed to resemble?
Answer: Beans
Bonus fact: Their name comes from their bean-like shape.
The hard outer coating of a jelly bean is created largely from what?
Answer: Sugar
Bonus fact: Sugar syrup is built up into a smooth shell.
The jelly-like fluid portion of cytoplasm is called what?
Answer: Cytosol
Bonus fact: Many metabolic reactions occur in cytosol.
"Jelly's Last Jam" centers on which early jazz musician?
Answer: Jelly Roll Morton
Bonus fact: Morton was a pianist and composer who boldly claimed to have invented jazz.
Which actor won a Tony Award for playing Jelly Roll Morton in the original Broadway production?
Answer: Gregory Hines
Bonus fact: Hines won Best Actor in a Musical for the 1992 production.
Who wrote the lyrics for "Jelly's Last Jam"?
Answer: Susan Birkenhead
Bonus fact: The show used music associated with Morton along with additional music by Luther Henderson.
What sensory organs do sharks use for electroreception?
Answer: Ampullae of Lorenzini
Bonus fact: These jelly-filled pores are concentrated around the head.
What special food is fed abundantly to larvae destined to become queens?
Answer: Royal jelly
Bonus fact: Diet influences queen development.