Calories & Energy
Scientists measure the energy in food using these units of heat energy.
What are calories?
These nutrients provide our bodies with readily available energy and are especially useful in the brain and nervous system.
What are carbohydrates?
These fats are liquid at room temperature, such as vegetable oils, and are generally healthful when consumed in small amounts.
What are unsaturated fats?
This food group consists of carbohydrate foods like wheat, corn, rice, bread, pasta, and breakfast cereals.
What are grains?
This indigestible substance found in grains, fruits, and vegetables helps keep the digestive tract healthy.
What is dietary fiber?
This sweet fruit contains about 110 calories, enough to power a compact fluorescent light bulb for about 2 hours.
What is an apple?
The human body is more that 60% this essential nutrient, which is the basic medium of blood.
What is water?
These fats are usually solid at room temperature and include butter and bacon fat.
What are saturated fats?
This food group consists mainly of calcium-rich, low-fat milk and milk products like cheese and yogurt.
What is dairy?
You should drink about this many glasses of water every day to stay healthy.
What is eight?
One slice of this rich dessert contains about 350 calories of stored energy.
What is cheesecake?
These nitrogen-rich nutrients are made from amino acids and supply the raw materials needed to build muscle tissue.
What are proteins?
Fats contain more than this many times the calories of carbohydrates and proteins.
What is twice?
This food group includes meat, eggs, seafood, nuts, seeds, and beans.
What are proteins?
Fiber helps stabilize blood sugar levels and helps prevent the buildup of this harmful type of cholesterol in the bloodstream.
What is LDL?
To maintain a healthy weight, you should balance the calories you take in with the calories your body does this each day.
What is burns off.
This collection of 13 chemically diverse nutrients are made from amino acids and supply the raw materials needed to build muscle tissue.
What are vitamins.
These partially hydrogenated fats, widely used in fast foods and snack foods, increase artery-clogging bad LDL cholesterol.
What are trans fats?
A perfectly well balanced plate should be half proteins and grains and half these two food groups combined.
What are fruits and vegetables?
These helpful non-nutrients, such as isoflavones found in soybeans, seem to help protect the body from cancer and other diseases.
What are phytochemicals?
When you consume more calories than your body burns, the excess energy is used to make this substance in you body.
What is fat?
These essential chemical elements include sodium, potassium, iron, and calcium, which perform many important roles in our bodies.
What are minerals?
Some fish and vegetable oils contain these fatty acids, which are essential nutrients that help prevent heart disease.
What are omega-3 fatty acids?
These grain-based foods are made from the entire kernel of grain and are more nutritious than refined grains.
What are whole grains?
Green leafy vegetables contain lots of this vitamin, which is needed for proper blood clotting.
What is vitamin K?