Food Groups
This food group includes apples, bananas, and berries.
What is the Fruit group?
A 12‑ounce can of soda often has about this many teaspoons of sugar.
Answer: What is ~10‑12 tsp?
This tells you how much of a nutrient is in one serving of a food.
Answer: What is “Serving Size”?
Teens should aim for this many hours of sleep per night.
Answer: What is 8–10 hours?
Which is the healthier snack: apple or candy bar?
Apple
This group includes milk, yogurt, and cheese.
Answer: What is the Dairy group?
Which has more sugar: soda or orange juice (unsweetened)?
Answer: What is soda (usually more added sugar)?
This value shows how much a nutrient in one serving contributes to your total daily diet.
Answer: What is “% Daily Value (%DV)”?
This is the general daily guideline for water (in cups or liters).
Answer: What is about 8 cups (≈ 2 liters)?
Name a snack with protein.
Yogurts, nuts, cheese, meat
This group gives your body energy and includes bread, rice, and pasta.
What is the Grains group?
This is the term for sugar added during processing or packaging.
Answer: What is “added sugar”?
If a food label says “0 g trans fat,” it can legally have up to this many grams per serving.
Answer: What is 0.5 g?
This is the recommended amount of exercise for adolescents per day (minutes).
Answer: What is 60 minutes of moderate to vigorous activity?
What makes a snack “healthy”?
Low in sugar, natural, includes nutrients
These provide essential fatty acids and include nuts and fish.
Answer: What is the Healthy Fats / Oils group?
The %DV on a label for sugar is based on a daily intake of this many grams.
Answer: What is 50 g (or 100% DV = 50 g)?
This term means the food contains at least 10% of the DV for a nutrient.
Answer: What is “Good Source of …”?
Why is hand washing important before eating?
Prevent spreading germs
What kind of snacks gives you long lasting energy: one high in sugar or one high in fiber?
High in fiber
This group is essential for growth and includes beans, meat, and tofu.
Answer: What is the Protein group?
Name two negative effects of excessive sugar intake.
Answer: What are (e.g.) weight gain, cavities, blood sugar spikes, risk of diabetes, etc.?
When reading a label, you should look at this line first (to check calories).
Answer: What is “Calories per serving”?
Name 3 parts of a healthy daily routine.
Sleep, hygiene, exercise, good nutrition
What does it mean when a snack is processed?
It’s been d from its natural form, often with added sugars, fats, or chemicals