Food quiz: do you know more about food than kids do?

One in three primary school children thinks cheese is made from plants. Well, they are only kids - but are grownups really that much better informed? Take our specialist food quiz and find out

A new survey reveals that a third of children think cheese grows on plants. That’s hardly news – if kids knew anything about food they wouldn’t be fobbed off with rice cakes. But is it really just the youngsters? How much do you, Guardian-reading, home-baking disciples of Ottolenghi, really know about the stuff you eat? Test yourself below...

Salbitxada sauce with wild garlic and quinoa cakes

Yotam Ottolenghi's salbitxada sauce with wild garlic and quinoa cakes … but how do you say quinoa? Photograph: Colin Campbell for the Guardian

  1. 1. How do you pronounce the name of this Guardianista favourite, quinoa?

  2. Acai Berries anti oxidant fruit 2. Name the Amazonian “superfood” pictured below

  3. 3. If farfalle literally means ‘butterflies’, which of these pasta shapes have I just made up?

  4. 4. What is Jersey black butter made from?

  5. Forms of Galangal 5. What is pictured below?

  6. 6. Believe it or not, there was life before Dairylea dunkables. What’s the oldest British cheese?

  7. 7. Which of these does not count towards your five a day?

  8. 8. The invention of the hamburger is variously credited to the Mongol hordes, German sailors and a hungry American man in a tearing hurry. But what meat were they originally made from?

  9. 9. The sun is out, and across the land, the Great British public awakes from its wintery slumber with raging thirst for pink wine. But what is real rose made from?

  10. 10. As good Guardian readers, you no doubt only eat poultry that has lived long enough to finish a PhD in social policy and raise a family. But how old is the average British chicken at slaughter?

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