General
What are nutrients?
The two categories of micronutrients.
What are vitamins and minerals?
This organ uses strong muscles to churn the food it collects.
What is the stomach?
This macronutrient gives your body quick energy and can be found in items like bread, pasta, and fruit.
What are carbohydrates?
This vegetable is known to make people cry when they slice it.
What are onions?
The amount of full meals you should have in a day.
What is three meals?
This mineral is important for bone growth and can be found in dairy products.
What is calcium?
The unit of measurement that tells us how much energy a food has.
What are calories?
Protein, carbohydrates, and fats are categorized as what?
What are macronutrients?
This food is the main ingredient in hummus.
What are garbanzo beans/chickpeas
Half of you plate should be made up of this food category.
What are vegetables?
This vitamin is known as the sunshine vitamin.
What is vitamin D? Fun fact: our bodies can synthesize it in the sun!
What is chewing?
Dairy, meat, legumes, and seeds provide this macronutrient.
What is protein?
What is wasabi?
This grain product is the most popular type of grain eaten in the United States
What is bread?
People are most commonly deficient in this micronutrient.
How food moves through the digestive tract.
The function of dietary fats.
What is: insulation, vitamin absorption, energy, supports hair/skin/nails, organ & bone cushioning
This nut is actually a legume, and not a true tree nut.
What are peanuts?
The collection of chemical processes in your body that converts food to energy.
What is metabolism?
These four vitamins need to be eaten with a fat to be absorbed.
What are vitamins A, D, E, & K?
The majority of nutrient absorption occurs in this part of the body.
What is the small intestine?
The body's preferred source of energy.
What is glucose/carbohydrates?
A chemical reaction between the proteins and sugars in a food, causing food to have their signature brown color and flavor (ex: searing a steak or toasting bread)
What is the Maillard reaction?