What's in your lunch?
Food Groups
Sally Snacker
Fun Facts
Body Beat
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Which is healthier fruit juice or fruit drink?
Fruit Juice is healthier than fruit drinks. Fruit drinks usually contain little fruit juice and is mainly water and sugar.
100
How many food groups are needed to make a healthy snack?
Two or more of the four food groups!
100
Name three foods that Sally should only eat sometimes?
Pop, chips, candy
100
This food can help prevent cavities.
Cheese or nuts
100
Fruits and Vegetables provide us with vitamins and minerals. True or False?
True!
200
If you are busy it is better to just skip a meal and make up for it at your next meal. True or False?
False! People who skip meals are less productive, are slower at making decisions, and may over eat at their next meal.
200
which food from the milk products food group makes a good snack with crackers?
Cheese, Yogurt, and milk!
200
Sally and her family love to eat a variety of different foods. Most of the time, their snacks are made up of the four food groups. Sometimes Sally wants to eat snacks such as pop or candy. She feels guilty for having it because she thinks it they are bad foods. What advice would you give Sally?
Sally is not bad for wanting to have pop. There's no such thing as good or bad foods, rather there are sometimes and most of the time foods. Most of the time Sally is eating foods from the four food groups- it is what she normally eats that is important to her health.
200
Granola bars are always healthy snack choices. True or False?
False! Although granola bars can be a good source of certain vitamins and nutrients, many also contain a great deal of fat, including a particularly harmful type of fat called trans fat. There can be a lot of sugar in granola cereals and bars. This is a prime example of why it is so important to read your labels!
200
Grains give us energy. True or False?
True!
300
Chocolate milk has the same nutrients as white milk. True or False?
True ! All awesome 16 of them
300
Balanced snacks help keep us feeling satisfied becuase they contain foods from the different four food groups. What are the four food groups?
Vegetables and Fruit, Grain products, Milk and alternatives, and meat and alternatives
300
Sally's mom asked her to make a lunch for her little brother. His most favorite food in the world is peanut butter and banana sandwhiches. What else should you add to his meal to make sure it contains all the four food groups?
milk, yogurt , cheese or any other type of milk product.
300
You tend to find high amounts of THIS on potato chips, french fries, and ichiban noodle soups. It is associated with long term health problems, and Canadians eat far too much of it.
Salt/Sodium
300
Meat and alternatives contain Calcium which makes strong muscles. True or False?
False! Meat and Alternatives contain protein which makes strong muscles
400
Frozen vegetables are not as healthy as fresh vegetables. True or False?
False, The flash freezing process seals in the good stuff, so they are just as good of a choice as fresh.
400
Does eating the same healthy snacks everyday guarentee a healthy diet?
No. Since different foods contain different nutrients it is important to eat a wide variety of foods from all the food groups in order to have a balanced diet.
400
Sally and her family just moved to Canada from another country and must eat traditional Canadian foods to be heatlhy. True or False?
False! There are many different types of foods and many different ways of eating well!
400
How many cups of apple juice do you have to drink to equal the amount of fiber in one apple?
There is no fiber in apple juice!! Most of the fiber in an apple is found in the peel, not in the pulpfrom which juice is made.
400
Milk products contain sugar which makes our teeth and bones strong. True or False?
False!! Milk products contain Calcium which makes our teeth and bones strong.
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