Food Groups
Using Your Senses to Eat
Serving Sizes
What Is It Good For?
The Different Tastes/Textures
100
The food group that contains blackberries, apples, and oranges.
What is Fruits?
100
Knowing I won't like broccoli because it is green OR knowing a strawberry is ripe because it is bright red.
What is using sight to eat?
100
What is the serving size of milk?
What is one fist/one cup?
100
The foods in this food group give us energy.
What is Grains?
100
These foods may send you to the dentist for a cavity.
What are sweet foods?
200
The food group that contains cauliflower, spinach and celery.
What is Vegetables?
200
Wanting sweets when you cookies are baking OR checking if milk has gone bad.
What is using smell to eat?
200
What is the serving size of a salad?
What is two fists/two cups?
200
The foods in this food group contain vitamins & minerals to keep us healthy, like vitamin A for healthy skin and eyes.
What is Vegetables?
200
These foods may pucker your lips.
What are sour foods?
300
The food group that contains yogurt and cheese?
What is Dairy?
300
Knocking on a melon to tell if it's ripe OR enjoying the sound of biting into a crunchy grape
What is using hearing to eat?
300
What is the serving size of fruit?
What is one fist/one cup of canned fruit/one medium apple?
300
The foods in this food group contain calcium that keeps our bones and teeth strong.
What is Dairy?
300
You may need a lot of water if you're going to eat these foods.
What are salty foods?
400
The food group that contains foods like meat and eggs.
What is Protein?
400
Knowing you'll like chocolate because it is sweet OR taking a bite of a lemon and spitting it out because it is too sour
What is using taste to eat?
400
One palm
What is the serving size of meat?
400
The foods in this food group contain a lot of vitamins & minerals, like potassium, that help to heal our body.
What is Fruits?
400
These foods take time to break down before you can swallow them.
What are chewy foods?
500
The food group that contains foods like bread, rice, and pasta.
What is Grains?
500
Squeezing an avocado to tell if it is ripe OR knowing you dislike slimy foods.
What is using touch/feeling to eat?
500
One thumb
What is the serving size of peanut butter?
500
The foods in this food group give us iron to keep our muscles strong.
What is Protein?
500
This is the texture of foods like yogurt and smoothies.
What are creamy foods?