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Edible Flowers

Summer is almost here. The flowers are beginning to bloom. They look almost good enough to eat. Well, some of them you can eat. This quiz will help you identify edible flowers that you can add to your menus to help add spice and colour to your meals.
1) Everyone can eat edible flowers.
   True
   False
2) Star flower oil, which contains an important long chain polyunsaturated fatty acid, is derived from the seeds of the:
   Sunflower plant
   Borage plant
   Anise plant
   Poppy plant
3) Flowers contain what percentage of water?
   65
   75
   85
   95
4) Which of the following vegetables is not considered to be a flower?
   Broccoli
   Cauliflower
   Artichoke
   Asparagus
5) People who are allergic to ragweed should avoid eating flowers from the following family:
   Rose
   Daisy
   Geranium
   Violet
6) Before eating flowers, you should remove the _______.
   Pistels and stamens
   Sepal and stalk
   Ovary and ovule
   Petals
7) What substance is responsible for the gold of marigolds, and can be used to add both colour and flavour to foods such as rice and milk?
   Calendulin
   Saffron
   Chartreuse
   Sulphur
8) The world’s most precious and expensive spice, saffron, is derived from the filaments of the saffron flower, which is from the __________ family?
   Rose
   Poppy
   Crocus
   Daisy
9) Flower cookery has not been associated with which of the following ancient cultures:
   Greek
   Chinese
   Middle Eastern
   Indian
10) Garlic blossoms are edible.
   True
   False