classification of commodities

1. Classification of
Commodities

2. Commodities which are used in the kitchen can be
broadly classified in to three main categories:
•Perishables: Ingredients which have short shelf life
ranging from six hours to six days at room temperature
such as milk and dairy products, meats, fish, eggs,
fruits and vegetables
•Semi Perishables: Ingredients which have a
longer shelf life ranging from a few weeks to a few
months such as cereals, pulses, fats, oils, condiments,
spices, flour, proprietary foods etc.
•Non Perishables: Ingredients which can be stored
indefinitely such as salts, mild acids, sugar, edible
colours, some essences etc.

3. •Under ground vegetables:
roots, tubers, bulbs, rhizomes,
pods,etc.
•Over ground vegetables:
Shoots, stems, leaves, fruits,
seeds, pods, flowers etc.
Vegetables are broadly classified into

4. Underground vegetables

5. Over Ground Vegetables

10. 1. Red Meat: Lamb, Beef, Pork, Mutton etc.
•2. White Meat: Poultry birds such as
Chicken, Duck, Turkey etc. and also Fish
& Seafood:
3. Game Meat: Animals or Birds which are
hunted for their meat and not farm
reared, such as wild boar, hare, geese etc.

14. Classification of Fish
•Fish is Classified into various
categories
Fresh Water Fish
Salt Water Fish
Flat Fish
Round Fish
Oily Fish
Non oily Fish
Scaly Fish
Non Scaly Fish

15. Fresh Water Fish Salt Water Fish

16. Classification of Seafood

17. Crustaceans

18. Cephalopods

19. Echinoderms

20. Molluscs

21. Fruits
•Fleshy: apple, pineapple, banana, papaya
•Vine : grape, water melon, cantaloupe
•Stone : plum, apricot, lychee, mango
•Citrus : orange, lime, kumquat
•Soft fruits : raspberry, blackberry, strawberry

22. Fresh Herbs
•Rosemary
•Thyme
•Holy Basil
•Marjoram
•Chervil
•Fenugreek Leaves
•Dill
•Mint leaves
•Hyssop
•Fennel
•Sage
•Lavender
•Lemon Grass
•Tarragon
•Borage
•Chives
•Coriander or Cilantro
•Curry Leaves
•Parsley
•Caraway

23. Dairy Products
•Milk
•Cheese
•Cream
•Butter
•Ghee
•Butter Milk
•Curd
•Yoghurt

24. Types of Milk
•Standardized milk - 4.5% fat, SNF 8.5%
•Whole milk - 3.25% milk fat, 8.25% milk solids
•Reduced-fat milk (2%) fat
•Low-fat milk (1%) fat
•Skimmed milk/non-fat milk : 0.5% fat
•Evaporated or condensed milk
•Sweetened condensed milk
•Homogenized milk
•Pasteurized milk
•Shelf-stable milk
•Ultra pasteurized milk

25. Types of Cream
•Half cream (12%)
•Single cream or light cream (18%)

•Whipping cream (35%)
•Double cream (48%

26. Types of Butter
•Cultured butter
•Whipped butter
•Churned butter or sweet butter
•Flavoured butter
•Farm butter
•Ghee
•Table or Pasteurized yellow butter
•Flavoured Spread able Butter

27. Types of Cheese
Fresh Soft Cheese
Soft Mould Ripened Cheese
Hard and Semi Hard Cheese
Washed Rind Cheese
Blue Cheese
Gouda Type Cheese
Specialty Cheese - Cheese with Additives
Mozzarella - Pasta Filata or Stretched Curd
Cheese
Smoked Cheese
Grated and Sliced Cheese

28. Cereals and Millets
•Cereals are normally staple foods which
constitute major consumption by
populations of the world example:
•Rice
•Wheat
•Corn or maize
•Sorghum or Jowar or Egyptian millets
•Ragi or Bhajra or Millets

29. Pulses and Legumes
•These include all kinds of beans, dry
peas, lentils, legumes and dals such as:
•Red gram or toor dal, green gram or
moong dal, black gram or urad dal, bengal
gram or channa dal, kidney bean or rajma,
white broad beans, yellow beans, soya
beans etc.

30. Spices
•Cardamom
•Cloves
•Mace
•Nutmeg
•Cinnamon
•Cumin Seed
•Mustard
•Chillies
•Turmeric
•Coriander Seed
•Ginger
•Garlic
•Pepper Corns
•Caraway Seed
•Fenugreek seed
•Fennel Seed
•Poppy Seed
•Onion Seed
•Saffron
•Sesame Seed

31. Fats and Oils
•Almond oil
•Avocado
•Canola (A US marketing
name for rapeseed oil)
•Coconut Oil
•Corn oil
•Grape Seed
•Lard
•Olive
•Peanut
•Safflower, High Oleic
•Safflower, Regular
•Sesame
•Shortening, vegetable
•Soybean
•Sunflower, Regular
•Sunflower, High Oleic
•Vegetable Oil
•Nut (walnut, hazelnut)
•Pumpkin Seed

32. Types of Flours
•Whole Wheat Flour
•Refined Flour
•Self Raising Flour
•White Flour
•Rye Flour
•Gram Flour
•Plain Maize Flour
•White Corn Flour
Wheat
Based
Flours

33. Sugars Salts
•Cane Sugar
•Beet Sugar
•Brown Sugar
•Castor Sugar
•Demerara sugar
•Barley Sugar
•Barbados sugar
•Corn Syrup
•Cinnamon Sugar
•Invert Sugar
•Candy Sugar
•Table Salt
•Iodized Salt
•Kosher Salt
•Sea Salt
•Pickling Salt
•Rock Salt
•Sour or Lemon Salt
•Seasoned Salt
•Chinese Salt
•Black Salt

34. Acids and Chemicals Used in
Cooking
•Sodium Chloride or plain salt
•Potassium Chloride or Black salt
•Sodium Bicarbonate or baking soda
•Ammonium Carbonate
•Dilute Acetic Acid or Synthetic Vinegar
•Lemon Juice or Citric Acid
•Tartaric Acid or Cream of Tartar (Potassium
hydrogen tartrate}

35. Thank
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