Canada's Food Guide
Food Labels
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What is diabesity?
Combination of the words diabetes and obesity
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What are the 3 types of nutritional information on food labels?
nutrition claims
an ingredient list
a nutrition fact table
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Carbohydrate's chemical structure is made up of the following...
Carbon, hydrogen, oxygen
110
Calories from fat should be ____ - ______ % of daily consumed food
20-30%
110
True or False - Apples are more effective than coffee at waking you up in the morning
True
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What are the four sections in Canada's OLD food guide?
Grain products, milk and alternatives, meat and alternatives, veggies and fruits
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What food is this food label for?
Milk
205
fructose, maltose, and lactose are examples of ______, whereas corn, beans, and bread contain ______
sugars, starches
205
No more than _____% of calories should be from _______ fat. It is considered the "bad fat"
10%, Saturated
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The heart of a shrimp is located in its......
Head!
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What are the sections in Canada's NEW food guide?
Whole grain products, Veggies and fruits, Protein
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Nutrient fact tables include calorie information and what 13 nutrients for the serving size given?
Fat, trans fat, saturated fat, carbs, dietary fibre, sugars, cholesterol, sodium, protein, vitamin A, vitamin C, calcium, iron
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Eating refined sugars cause a speeding up of the digestive process. This results in 3 things...
Wide swings in your blood-sugar levels
Alter your mood
Lead to cravings and compulsive eating
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Fat helps your body absorb...
fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E, and K.
313
What kind of chocolate is really just a mixture of sugar, milk, vanilla, lecithin, and cocoa butter?
White Chocolate
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What is the recommended drink of choice in Canada's NEW food guide and how much of it should you drink per day?
Water, 8 cups (2L)
406
A ingredients label reads:
dextrin, coconut extract, water, flavouring, hydrobenzoate, phosphorolipid
What is the number 1 main ingredient? And what is that ingredient classified as?
406
What is the difference between whole wheat, whole grain and white bread?
White bread has no nutritional value (no good layers of the grain left), whole wheat has a very slight amount (not all the layers) and whole grain has the entire grain, with all the nutrients.
406
What is the difference between HDL cholesterol and LDL cholesterol? What do they each do to your arteries?
HDL - good!
LDL - bad :(
406
The red food dye used to colour these rainbow candies is made from boiled beetles
Skittles
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What is 3 NON meat foods that contain high amounts of protein?
What are 3 Whole Grain products that you can eat?
What are 3 veggies and fruits that you can eat?
Lentils, beans, eggs
Whole grain bread, naan, pasta
Strawberries, apples, peas
527
What food is this food label for?
Peanut Butter
527
What is the difference between refined sugar and natural sugar? Give an example of a food with each in it
Refined sugar is man made, natural sugar naturally occurs in food.
Natural - strawberries
Refined - ketchup
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Partial hydrogenation is the process used to create this fat
Trans fat
527
This fast food chain sells 75 hamburgers EVERY SECOND
Mcdonalds