Food Choices
This is the number 1 reason most people choose the foods they eat.
What is taste?
Which DRI value meets the needs of 97-98% of healthy individuals?
What is the RDA (Recommended Daily Allowance)?
Nutrients are preferably obtained from this source.
What is Whole foods?
This organ begins both mechanical and chemical digestion.
What is the mouth?
This part of the GIT is approximately 20 feet in length.
Name two factors besides taste that influences food choices.
What are cost, culture, convenience, habits, emotions, health, social, environmental?
Which DRI represents the highest intake unlikely to cause harm?
What is the UL (Tolerable Upper Intake Level)?
These three nutrients provide calories/energy.
What is fats, proteins, and carbs?
These are structures in the small intestine that increase absorption of nutrients.
This accessory organ is responsible for storing bile.
What is the Gallbladder?
More than what percentage of Americans are overweight or obese based on BMI?
What is 70%?
What is one focus area of the new Dietary Guidelines for Americans?
What is real food, limited process foods, limiting added sugars, limiting refined carbs?
Vitamins and minerals belong to this nutrient category.
What are micronutrient?
This is the muscular movement of food down the esophagus.
Saliva contains this enzyme that facilitates the breakdown of carbohydrates.
What is Amylase?
This is the process by which living organisms obtain, breakdown, and absorb food substances for energy and body functions.
What is Nutrition?
This is the standardized measurement of food, often found on food labels.
What is a serving size?
This nutrient combination generally increases fullness the MOST.
What is Fat, Protein, and Fiber?
This semiliquid mass formed during digestion.
This is the process of breaking down food into absorbable components.
A community with limited access to affordable healthy foods is called what?
This is considered the most reliable nutrition information source.
What is peer reviewed research?
This nutrient's main function in the body is to facilitate bodily processes and provide hydration.
What is Water?
Most absorption of nutrients occurs in this organ of the GIT.
What is the small intestine?
This nutrient is considered food for our healthy gut bacteria in the large intestine.
What is fiber?