Red Fruit and Vegetables
This tart, tiny red berry is a Thanksgiving staple and is unique because growers harvest them by flooding the fields.
What is a cranberry?
This watery substance in the mouth starts the chemical breakdown of starches.
What is saliva?
This food category is naturally richest in dietary fiber (Dairy products like milk and yogurt, Lean meats and poultry, Legumes, beans, and lentils, or Refined white bread and pasta).
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What is: Legumes, beans, and lentils?
The world's largest cupcake was made in this region of the world, and weighed this many pounds.
What is the United Kingdom, and 3 pounds?
This is widely known as the "sunshine vitamin" because the body makes it after being in the sun.
What is Vitamin D?
This jewel-like red fruit contains hundreds of edible seeds called arils, encapsulated in a tough, leathery rind.
What is a pomegranate?
This 10-inch muscular tube connects your throat to your stomach.
What is the esophagus?
BONUS (points x2)
What is one food and one non food related thing you did this week that you felt proud of?
Peanuts are not true nuts; they are legumes that grow underground, making them closer relatives to these high fiber high protein staples.
What are beans and lentils.
BONUS (x3)
What are three examples of hunger cues?
Wild apples, the direct ancestors of most modern domesticated apples, originated in the rugged mountains of which modern-day region?
What is Kazakhstan?
The total path from your mouth to your rear end is longer than this vehicle.
What is a school bus?
The primary characteristic of soluble fiber in the digestive tract (what it does).
BONUS (x2 points)
Name one example of an after school snack you could have that includes some protein
This month is National Oatmeal Month officially celebrated in the United States.
What is January (when people buy the most oats)?
What is: because the berries contain tiny pockets of air that make them float?
This condition results from a lack of the enzyme needed to digest the primary sugar found in dairy.
What is lactose intolerance?
Comparing a serving of raspberries, an apple with skin, and a slice of white bread, how do their dietary fiber profiles compare?
What is: Raspberries and the apple with skin provide high amounts of total fiber, whereas white bread provides minimal fiber.
Fortune Cookies: While commonly served at Chinese restaurants in Western countries, fortune cookies were actually invented in this state by people from this country.
What is San Francisco, California (by Japanese immigrants in California), not China.
Adding a daily bowl of oatmeal with raisins helps increase this dietary component important for gut health.
What is fiber?
BONUS (1.5x points)
What is one food you can do an exposure with this week?
Your digestive tract hosts over this many different species of bacteria, and your body actually contains more microbial cells than human cells.
What is 500 different species?
A. Oatmeal and oat bran
B. Wheat bran and whole wheat flour
C. Psyllium husk powder
D. Pectin from apples
What is wheat bran and whole wheat flour
This nut is used to make marzipan?
What are almonds?
This is the most widely eaten fish in the world?
What is herring (though tilapia and salmon are close behind)?