Canada Food Guide
Food Labels
Eating Healthy
Potpourri
100
Name the 4 Basic Food Groups.
100
Name 4 categories that appear on a typical Canadian Food Label
100
The 2 food groups you should eat more servings of to maintain a healthy diet:
What are Fruits/Vegetables & Grains.
100
List 2 meanings of the letters in the health acronym PLAN
What are:
P - Pinpoint Risky Situations
L - List Alternatives
A - Apply Alternatives
N - New Habits
200
The recommended servings for a 9-13 year old of each food group:
200
When reading food labels you should choose foods high in this, typically 3-5 grams is a good amount
200
Fats have this many times as many Calories per gram as compared to Proteins and Carbohydrates:
What is 2 times.
200
List 2 meanings of the letters in the acronym FATS, concerning healthy eating
What are:
F - Find Nutrient Values on Food Labels
A - Add High Fiber Food to your Diet
T - Take time to Exercise
S - Substitute New Habits
300
Identify 2 different types and fruits/vegetables and their amounts that would make up 1 serving according to the Canada Food Guide:
300
When looking at food labels this percentage of Fat, or lower, is suggested to maintain a healthy diet.
What is 30% or lower per serving.
300
One way to identify if a food product is highly processed:
What are many ingredients that are hard to pronounce, high amount of sugar, or a high amount of sodium.
300
1 Teaspoon of Sugar is the same as this many grams of sugar on a Food Label:
What is 4 grams.
400
Name 3 meat alternatives you can include in a healthy diet
What are Beans, Lentils, Tofu, Nuts
400
The maximum percentage of sugar per serving recommended as a healthy choice:
What is 8% or less per serving.
400
Feeling Starved is an indicator of this
What is you have waited too long to eat.
400
The range on the hunger scale where you are most likely to make poor food choices:
What is 1-2.
500
Name 3 benefits of being active and eating well:
What are Better Overall Health, Lower Risk of Disease, A Healthy Body Weight, Feeling and Looking Better, More Energy, Stronger Muscles and Bones
500
Sugar should not be in the top ____ ingredients of a food product to be considered a healthy choice:
What is the Top 5.
500
Eating more often, in small portions, helps boost this, which leads to the body burning more calories.
What is metabolism.
500
Over this many mg of sodium is considered too high for one serving:
What is 500mg.
