Nutrients
This nutrient is found in bread, fruit, and vegetables and gives energy to your body.
What is a carbohydrate?
There are many varieties of this fruit including gala, granny smith, and honeycrisp.
What is an apple?
The recommended amount of a food or drink that you should eat.
What is a serving size or food portions?
Excessive sugar and salt can lead to this painful issue in the mouth.
What are dental cavities?
Vegetable source of naturally occurring sodium.
What is celery?
This nutrient, found in nuts, avocado, and dairy products, helps support cell growth
What is fat?
This food group provides your body with calcium, vitamin D, and protein.
What is dairy?
You should fill half of your plate with these two food groups.
What are fruits and vegetables?
Eating these foods in excess may result in this condition.
Red meat, full-fat dairy, fried foods, bakes sweets
What is high LDL (low-density lipoprotein) or "bad cholesterol"
Has more than twice as much potassium as a banana.
What are avacados?
This nutrient is found in meat, legumes, and milk and helps grow strong muscles.
What is protein?
This vegetable, usually served mashed or fried, has lots of vitamin C.
What is a potato?
What is the serving size of protein on a plate.
What is 1/4 of the plate or 25%?
Worse type of fat in the body. Found in foods like French fries, doughnuts, deep-fried fast foods, cookies, cakes, pastries, and processed foods.
What is trans fat "trans fatty acids"?
Contains twice the vitamin C of an orange and almost as much calcium as whole milk.
What is broccoli?
This plays a critical role in helping your cells maintain the right balance of fluid. It’s also used to help cells absorb nutrients. It’s the most abundant electrolyte ion found in the body.
What is sodium?
Food that is grown without the use of synthetic pesticides and herbicides and promotes biodiversity.
What is organic food?
How much water, on average, you should be drinking.
11-16 cups
2-4 liters
88-128 ounces
The average American consumes 66 pounds of this per year.
What is sugar?
The only non-animal natural source of vitamin D.
What are mushrooms?
Lack of this electrolyte can cause muscle weakness and muscle cramps.
(May get additional hint for half the points)
What is potassium?
This food is high in omega-3 fatty acids and vitamins such as D and B2 (riboflavin).
What are fish?
Omegas are good because they help maintain a healthy heart by lowering blood pressure and reducing the risk of sudden death, heart attack, abnormal heart rhythms, and strokes.
This is information found on food packages that details a food’s nutrition content including the amount of fat, sugar, protein, and fiber it has
What is a nutrition label?
Eating high amounts sugary treats may weaken the immune system by this reaction.
What is protective immune response called inflammation, which can damage your internal organs over time.
The exact shape name of the Pringles chip.
What is hyperbolic parabaloid