Question

1. what is the process of bread rising called?

leavening
oxidation
pasteurization
fermentation

Explanation:

To determine the process of bread rising, we analyze each option:

• Leavening: The process of making dough rise (e.g., with yeast, baking powder) to create air pockets, which is exactly what happens when bread rises.
• Oxidation: Involves reaction with oxygen (e.g., browning, rusting), not bread rising.
• Pasteurization: Heat - treating to kill microbes, unrelated to bread rising.
• Fermentation: Yeast converts sugars to CO₂ and alcohol, but the process of the dough rising from gas production is leavening (fermentation causes leavening, but the rise itself is leavening). So the correct term for the rise is leavening.

Answer:

A. Leavening