Fruits
This fruit is high in potassium, good source of carbohydrate and yellow in colour.
What is a banana?
Canada’s Food Guide recommends eating orange vegetables a few times a week. Doing so can help you to get enough of this vitamin.
What is vitamin A?
When reading a Nutrition Facts Table, look at this section first. All of the information on the Nutrition Facts Table is based on this amount.
What is the serving size?
What is water?
This fruit has 92% water content, one of the highest amongst all fruits.
What is watermelon?
Canada’s Food Guide recommends eating dark green vegetables every day. Doing so can hep you to get enough of these nutrients.
What is folate and calcium?
By law, all prepackaged foods must have these two items as part of the food label.
What is a Nutrition Facts Table and an ingredient list?
Canada's Food Guide recommends filling half of your plate with these food items.
What are vegetables and fruit?
This fruit is rich in oleic acid, a mono-unsaturated fat and potassium and has a creamy pulp.
What are avocados?
This vegetable is high in the carotenoid lycopene.
What is a tomato?
This part of the food label, lists all food items added in the product, in order by weight.
What is the ingredient list?
Canada's Food Guide was updated in 2019. The image of the previous food guide was a rainbow. The new image is a ______.
What is a plate?
These berries have highest antioxidant value and are low in calories.
What are blueberries?
There are many vegetables that are good sources of iron. Name two of them.
What is spinach, beets, collard, swiss chard, kale, broccoli, peas, sweet potatoes, dandelion greens?
This part of the Nutrition Facts Table tells you whether a food product contains a little or a lot of a certain nutrient.
What is the % Daily Value?
What are highly processed foods?
This fruit's vitamin C content is double that of oranges.
What are Kiwis?
These peppers are one of the highest source of vitamin C.
What are raw green and red chili peppers?
Food products that do not require a food label. (Name any 3)
What are fresh fruits and vegetables?
What are raw meats, poultry, fish and seafood?
What is alcohol?
What are foods prepared or processed at the store (e.g., bakery items, salads)?
What are foods that contain very few nutrients (e.g., tea, coffee, spices)?
Healthy eating is about more than just the foods you eat. Being aware of your eating habits such as how, why, what, when, where and how much you eat is called _________ eating.
What is mindful eating?