The governmental agency that oversees food labels.
What is the FDA?
100
The average daily amount of a nutrient considered adequate to meet the known nutrient needs of practically all healthy people (98%).
What is the Recommended Dietary Allowances?
100
Nutrients that the body requires in relatively large amounts.
What are macronutrients?
100
Diets providing sufficient energy and enough of all the nutrients to meet the needs of healthy people.
What is adequacy?
200
The food group depicted in the glass on MyPlate.
What is dairy?
200
Reference values developed by FDA for use on food labels.
What is Daily Value?
200
The maximum daily amount of a nutrient that appears safe for most healthy people and beyond which there is an increased risk of adverse health effects.
What is the Upper Limit (UL)?
200
Nutrients the body requires in small amounts.
What are micronutrients?
200
Eating a wide selection of foods within and among the food groups.
What is variety?
300
The governmental agency that developed MyPlate.
What is USDA?
300
Statements that characterize the quantify of a nutrient in a food.
What is a nutrient claim?
300
The lowest continuing intake of a nutrient that will maintain a specified criterion of adequacy.
What is a nutrient requirement?
300
Nutrients that must be obtained from the diet because the body cannot make them in sufficient quantities to meet physiological needs.
What are essential (or indispensable) nutrients?
300
A measure of the nutrients a food provides relative to the energy it provides.
What is nutrient density?
400
At least half of a person's grains should come from these.
What are whole grains?
400
Statements that characterize the relationship between a nutrient or other substance in a food and a disease or health related outcome.
What is a health claim?
400
The amount of a nutrient below which almost all healthy people can be expected over time to experience deficiency symptoms.
What is a nutrient deficiency?
400
Nutrients that break down to yield energy that the body can use.
What are energy yielding nutrients?
400
The addition to a food of nutrients that were either not originally present or present in insufficient amounts.
What is fortification?
500
Half your plate should be made up of these two food groups.
What are fruits and vegetables?
500
Statements that characterize the relationship between a nutrient or other substance in a food and its role in the body.
What is a structure function claim?
500
The average dietary energy intake that maintains energy balance and good health in a person of a given age, gender, weight, height, and level of physical activity.
What is Estimated Energy Requirement (EER)?
500
Units by which energy is measured.
What are calories (kcal)?
500
The addition of nutrients to foods that were lost during processing so that the food will meet a specific standard.