Food Pyramid
Nutrients
Advertising
Healthful Meals and Snacks
Vocabulary
100
This is the smallest section of the food pyramid. It suggests you limit your intake of this group. What is the sections and name one food that would fit in this section.
What is oils, sweets and fats?
100
This is the part of grains and plant foods that your body doesn't digest.
What is fiber?
100
This is the purpose of food commercials and advertisements.
What is to get you to buy the food?
100
These are foods you eat between meals.
What are snacks?
100
This is a unit used to measure the energy produced by food in the body.
What is a calorie?
200
Foods are arranged in the food pyramid with other foods that have the same ________________.
What is nutrients?
200
This nutrient is needed to build, grow and repair body cells.
What is protein?
200
This is the difference between and advertisement and a commercial.
What is advertisements are written, found on buses, billboards or in magazines and commercials are on television, the radio or computer?
200
Eating a __________ of foods helps you get the nutrients you need.
What is variety?
200
This is added to food to make it look or taste better or be more healthful.
What is an additive?
300
This section of the food pyramid is the largest and provides us with carbohydrates for energy. What is the section and name one food that would be found there.
What is carbohydrates?
300
There are 2 types of this nutrient - starches and sugars.
What are carbohydrates?
300
What advertising strategy is used by McDonalds when they include a toy with the Happy Meal?
What is using a gimmick?
300
This is added to food to keep it from spoiling too fast.
What is a preservative?
400
This is the purpose of the food pyramid.
What is to show us the amounts from each food group that we need each day?
400
This is what you get when you change an unsaturated fat into a saturated fat.
What is trans fat?
400
This advertising strategy is used by Pepsi when it shows Kylie Jenner drinking its product.
What is using famous people?
400
This is an alternative to salt to add flavor to food.
What is add spices?
400
This is a food that is low in vitamins and minerals but high in calories.
What is an empty calorie food?
500
Name the three main sections of the food pyramid and one food that would be found in each section. (Do not include oils, sweets and fats.)
What are grains, vegetables, fruits, milk, and meat and beans?
500
These are the 6 kinds of nutrients.
What are proteins, carbohydrates, fats, water, vitamins, minerals?
500
Use your book, page B42, to identify at least 3 vitamins found in milk. (There are 4.)
What are Vitamin A, Vitamin B2 and Vitamin B12 and Vitamin D?
500
These are 3 things to consider when planning a healthful breakfast.
What are use MyPyramid, eat a variety of grains, eat a variety of fruits, eat foods that are low in saturated fat and not too high in unsaturated fat, limit how much sugar you eat and use little salt?
500
These are suggested goals for eating that help you stay healthy and live longer.
What are Dietary Guidelines?
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