Fruit for Thought
This fruit is 92% water
What is Watermelon?
Over the past 30 years many of us probably have this woman in particular to thank for helping us pass the RD Exam with her study guides and two-day seminars.
Who is Jean Inman?
This gas is given off when baking soda is mixed with liquids.
Carbon Dioxide
AKA the Hollywood Diet, this diet has made the rounds a few times starting in the 1930’s. The theory: enzymes in this fruit help your body burn fat. Eat half of this fruit with or as your meal to lose weight.
What is the Grapefruit diet?
This Disney-Pixar film, named after a French Provençal dish, stars a lovable rat with culinary aspirations who teams up with a young kitchen worker in a prestigious Parisian restaurant.
What is Ratatouille?
This country is passion fruit's native home.
What is Brazil?
______ was the first year RD Day was celebrated.
What is 2008?
Pineapple are rich in this enzyme that can be used to tenderize meats.
What is Bromelain?
Before MyPlate, there was the Food Pyramid. This is the number of sections of the Food Pyramid.
What is 6?
In the movie Mean Girls, Regina George asks if this food is a carb while trying to follow a high carb diet for weight loss.
What is butter?
People who are allergic to one of these 2 foods might also be allergic to mangos.
What are cashews and pistachios?
In _______ (year), National Nutrition Week became a whole Month, d/t of public’s interest in nutrition.
What is 1980?
This reaction occurs between amino acids and simple sugars during cooking, it causes foods to brown, adds flavor and aroma.
Maillard reaction
This fad diet, big in the 1960s, is named after a Disney character.
The Sleeping Beauty Diet
This is the name of Beyonce’s 6 th studio album and was also released as a visual album.
What is Lemonade?
Legend has it Queen Victoria offered a reward of 100 pounds sterling to anyone that delivered her a fresh one of these fruits.
What is a Mangosteen?
Per the US dept of Labor and stats: This is the number of RDs in the US in May 2022. (a) 69,880 (b) 124,900 (c) 44,000 (d) 55,240
What is A: 69,880
Add this ingredient to egg whites to increase their ability to foam, by stabilizing the cross-linking of proteins.
What is Acid? (also acceptable: lemon juice, vinegar, cream of tartar)
Approved in the US in 1996, this fat substitute added “no metabolizable” calories to products and was often found as a fat replacement in many ready to eat snacks.
What is Olestra (or Olean)
Popular with many influencers and celebrities, you can go to this location in LA to purchase a $20 smoothie that may feature such ingredients as colostrum, sea moss, and hyaluronic acid drops.
What is Erewhon?
This fruit found on the Artocarpus heterophyllus tree is largest tree fruit and can weight up to 120lb. (Hint this tree is in the fig, mulberry, & breadfruit family)
What is Jackfruit?
Formerly the American Dietetic Association, now the Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics was originally founded in this year.
What is 1917?
Uh oh! I was trying to make a pie for RD day but the crust looks all wrong! I’ve mixed together flour, sugar, butter, and salt and now I have a coarse, crumbly mess where nothing sticks together. Add this to save your crust.
What is ice water?
This year was when the first artificial sweetener saccharin, primary ingredient in Sweet n’ Low, was synthesized.
What is 1879?
This fruit, captured by Andy Warhol, was the cover art for this self- titled, debut album ‘Velvet Underground & Nico'
What is a Banana?