The Importance of Nutrition
Nutrients
Healthy Food Guidelines
Nutrition Labels and Food Safety
Miscellaneous
100
The process by which your body takes in and uses food.
What is nutrition?
100
Starches and sugars found in food that provide your body the largest amount of energy.
What are carbohydrates?
100
A set of recommendations about smart eating and physical activity for Americans.
What are the Dietary Guildlines for Americans?
100
The name of the food product, serving size, information about the company, ingredients, or the nutrition facts panel.
What is listed on food labels?
100
Organic compounds found in food that help regulate many body processes.
What are vitamins?
200
Substances in food that your body needs to grow, repair, and supply itself with energy.
What are nutrients?
200
A condition in which the bones become fragile and break easily.
What is osteoporosis?
200
An interactive guide to healthful eating and active living.
What is MyPlate?
200
Treating a substance with heat to kill/slow the growth of bacteria?
What is pasteurization?
200
Fats your body needs but can’t produce.
What is essential fatty acids?
300
A unit of heat used to measure the energy your body uses and receives from food.
What is a calorie?
300
Simple, complex, and fiber.
What are the three types of carbohydrates?
300
Should have the largest portion on your plate, according to the MyPlate plan.
What are vegetables?
300
Substances added to food to produce a desired effect.
What are food additives?
300
A condition in which the body’s immune system reacts to substances in certain foods.
What are food allergies?
400
The natural, physical drive to eat.
What is hunger?
400
Nutrients the body uses to build and maintain cells and issues.
What are proteins?
400
If a product has a high ratio of nutrients to calories.
What is nutrient-dense?
400
To be called this, a product must provide at least 20% of the daily value for vitamins, minerals, proteins, or fibers.
What is the guideline for something to have high nutritional value?
400
The continuous consumption of food during another activity, may occur even if the person is not hungry.
What is mindless eating?
500
The psychological drive for food.
What is appetite?
500
As an energy source, to grow, to heal/build tissue, to transport oxygen, or to regulate body functions.
What are ways your body uses nutrients?
500
60 mins of exercise.
What is the Dietary Guideline’s recommended time for physical activity per day?
500
The spreading of pathogens from one food to another.
What is cross-contamination
500
A negative reaction to food that does not involve the immune system?
What is food intolerence?
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