Percentage and Cooking Worksheet
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Percentage and Cooking Worksheet
Use your knowledge of percentages to answer these food and cooking questions. Show your working.
1. A recipe for 4 people uses 200 g of flour. How much flour is needed for 10 people? What percentage extra flour is this compared to the original amount?
2. A pizza dough recipe uses 300 g of flour and 120 g of water. What percentage of the total weight is water?
3. A 100 g serving of yogurt contains 6 g of sugar. What percentage of the yogurt is sugar?
4. A nutrition label on a cereal box says one serving provides 3.6 g of fibre. The recommended daily amount of fibre is 30 g. What percentage of the daily recommended amount does one serving provide?
5. A cake recipe calls for 250 g of butter. You only have 200 g. What percentage of the required butter do you have?
6. A loaf of bread contains 480 g of flour, 60 g of seeds, and 12 g of salt. What percentage of the total weight is salt?
7. A bag of mixed nuts contains 40% peanuts, 25% cashews, 20% almonds, and the rest are walnuts. The bag weighs 200 g. How many grams of walnuts are in the bag?
8. A juice carton says it contains 45% real fruit juice. The carton holds 330 ml. How many millilitres of the drink is real fruit juice?
9. A school canteen buys 80 kg of vegetables on Monday. By Friday, 12 kg have been thrown away as food waste. What percentage of the vegetables were wasted?
10. A recipe for biscuits uses 150 g of sugar out of a total weight of 600 g. What percentage of the recipe is sugar?
11. A bread recipe is scaled up by 40%. The original recipe uses 500 g of flour. How much flour does the new recipe need?
12. A serving of soup contains 840 mg of sodium. The recommended daily maximum for sodium is 2,400 mg. What percentage of the daily maximum is in one serving? Give your answer to 1 decimal place.
13. A gluten-free recipe replaces 30% of the flour with rice flour and the rest with plain flour. If the total flour needed is 400 g, how many grams of plain flour are used?
14. A restaurant reduces its food waste by 35% after changing its ordering habits. It used to waste 60 kg per week. How much does it now waste each week?
15. A smoothie recipe uses 120 g of banana, 80 g of strawberries, 50 g of mango, and 100 ml of milk. What percentage of the total solid ingredients (by mass) is banana?
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