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Food and cooking — 食と調理

The menu and the season, best-before dates, additives, heating and freezing, fermentation, flavour. Read each word aloud with its reading, then write it once on the line — in kana if you cannot yet write the kanji.

えいようか noun

栄養価 nutritional value

こんだて noun

献立 menu, meal plan

しゅん noun

旬 the season (for a food)

しょうみきげん noun

賞味期限 best-before date

しょうひきげん noun

消費期限 use-by date

ほぞんりょう noun

保存料 preservative

てんかぶつ noun

添加物 additive

かねつ noun

加熱 heating

れいとう noun

冷凍 freezing

かいとう noun

解凍 defrosting

はっこう noun

発酵 fermentation

じゅくせい noun

熟成 maturing, ageing (food)

ふうみ noun

風味 flavour, taste

こうしんりょう noun

香辛料 spices

あまみ noun

甘味 sweetness

さんみ noun

酸味 sourness, acidity

にがみ noun

苦味 bitterness

しおかげん noun

塩加減 the amount of salt, seasoning

しょっかん noun

食感 texture (of food)

したごしらえ noun

下ごしらえ preparation (of ingredients)

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Vocabulary N2 · set 64 of 75 · 2 / 2 · recall

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Food and cooking — from memory

Cover page 1. Write the Japanese for each meaning (kana is fine), then write what each word in part 2 means. Page 1 is the answer key.

1 Write the Japanese

the season (for a food)

noun

sweetness

noun

maturing, ageing (food)

noun

bitterness

noun

spices

noun

fermentation

noun

nutritional value

noun

texture (of food)

noun

use-by date

noun

menu, meal plan

noun

2 What does it mean?

風味

賞味期限

下ごしらえ

冷凍

保存料

加熱

酸味

添加物

解凍

塩加減

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