Healthy Eating
This food group includes apples, bananas, and strawberries.
What is the fruit group?
This unit is used on food labels to measure the energy food provides.
What are calories?
This is one reason your body needs carbohydrates.
What is to provide energy?
This sweet ingredient is commonly added to soda, candy, and many desserts.
What is sugar?
This popular Japanese dish is commonly made with vinegared rice and ingredients such as fish or vegetables.
What is sushi?
According to the USDA's MyPlate model, these are the five major food groups.
What are fruits, vegetables, grains, protein foods, and dairy?
This mineral found in foods like milk and yogurt is important for strong bones and teeth.
What is calcium?
This is why a food containing fat can still be part of a balanced diet.
What is that the body needs dietary fat for energy, cell function, and absorption of certain vitamins?
A snack contains 5 grams of added sugar per serving. There are this many grams in two servings.
What are 10 grams?
Though deeply associated with Irish culture today, this underground starch crop actually originated in the Andes region of South America.
What are potatoes?
This is one reason that eating breakfast with fiber and protein may help you stay satisfied through the morning.
What is that fiber and protein can help you feel full for longer?
A food contains 150 calories per serving. How many calories are in two and a half servings?
What are 375 calories?
While long blamed for causing insomnia and hyper behavior in kids, multiple clinical studies show this crystal substance does not actually cause hyperactivity.
What is sugar?
This is one of the most common replacements for sugar in sodas. (Diet and zero verisons)
What is aspartame, stevia, or Splenda (sucralose)?
This pungent, spiky Southeast Asian fruit is banned on public transit in Singapore due to an odor often compared to rotting onions or gym socks.
What is a durian?
This is why beans are a useful food for someone who doesn't eat meat
What is that beans provide plant-based protein and fiber, along with other nutrients?
According to the FDA's general guide, this percent Daily Value or higher is considered high for a nutrient on a Nutrition Facts label.
What is 20% Daily Value or higher?
Many avoid white potatoes assuming sweet potatoes are healthier, but both have nearly identical calorie counts and white potatoes actually pack more of this essential muscle-regulating mineral than a banana.
What is potassium?
This standard 12-ounce can of regular Coca-Cola contains roughly 39 grams of sugar, which is equal to nearly this many teaspoons.
What are 10 teaspoons?
This fermented, spicy cabbage dish is served at almost every meal in Korea and is traditionally stored in earthenware jars.
What is kimchi?
This process of treating foods like yogurt, kimchi, and kefir introduces live, beneficial bacteria that drastically improve gut health.
What is fermentation?
A drink contains 14 grams of sugar per serving, one serving is 0.8 oz, and you drink 12 oz. How many grams of sugar did you consume?
What are 210 grams?
Despite the myth that this vegetable was genetically engineered by the Dutch to honor King William of Orange, historical records show they simply bred wild purple and yellow varieties to create it.
What is a carrot?
A drink contains 27 grams of added sugar per bottle. Using 4 calories per gram of sugar, how many calories come from its added sugar, and what percentage of the FDA's 50-gram Daily Value for added sugars does the bottle provide?
What are 108 calories and 54%?
This raw fish dish, which is the national food of Peru, uses fresh citrus juices like lime to chemically "cook" the seafood.
What is ceviche?