The most important consideration when choosing something to eat. A combination of all five senses: taste, smell, touch, sight, and sound.
What is Flavor?
100
Guidelines that discuss specific foods and food groups to eat for optimal health.
What are Dietary Recommendations?
100
A large class of nutrients, including sugars, starch, and fibers, that function as the body's primary source of energy.
What are carbohydrates?
100
Inorganic nutrient that plays a vital role in all bodily processes and makes up just over half of the body's weight.
What is water?
100
13 noncaloric nutrients found in a wide variety of foods, especially fruits and vegetables.
What are vitamins?
200
The behaviors and beliefs of a certain social, ethnic, or age group.
What is culture?
200
Tell us the amounts of foods we need to eat to have a nutritionally adequate diet.
What are food guides?
200
Excessive level of ketone bodies in the blood and urine.
What is ketosis?
200
A complex carbohydrate made up of a long chain of glucoses linked together; found in grains, legumes, vegetables, and some fruits; the straight form is called amylose, and the branched form is called amylopectin.
What is starch?
200
A substance made by the liver that is stored in the gallbladder and released when fat enters the small intestine to help digest fat.
What is bile?
300
A science that studies nutrients and other substances in foods and in the body and the way those nutrients relate to health and disease.
What is nutrition?
300
Fats that are liquid at room temperature. Come from many different plants and from fish.
What are oils?
300
A condition caused by a deficiency of the enzyme lactase, resulting in symptoms such as flatulence and diarrhea after drinking milk or eating most dairy products.
What is lactose intolerance?
300
The dietary intake that is used when there is not enough scientific research to support an RDA.
What is adequate intake (AI)?
300
A diet that avoids excessive amounts of kcalories or any particular food or nutrient.
What is a moderate diet.
400
A measure of energy in food, specifically the energy-yielding nutrients.
What is a kilocalorie?
400
Used for building bones and teeth and maintaining bone mass. Milk products are the primary source of this in American Diets.
What is calcium?
400
Cavities developed from sugar and staches.
What dental caries?
400
Foods that provide few nutrients for the number of kcalories they contain.
What are empty-kcalorie foods?
400
A ball of chewed food that travels from the mouth through the esophagus to the stomach.
What is bolus?
500
A measure of the nutrients provided in a food per kcalorie of that food.
What is Nutrient Density?
500
The balance of kcalories you have after meeting the recommended nutrient intakes by eating foods in low-fat or no added sugar forms. May be used to select forms of foods that are not the most nutrient-dense or may be additions to foods, such as sugar or butter.
What are discretionary kcalories?
500
A group of organic compounds that cause the blood to become too acidic as a result of fat being burned for energy without any carbohydrates present.
What are ketone bodies?
500
A process in which starches, when heated in liquid, absorb water and swell in size.
What is gelatinization?
500
Tiny fingerlike projections in the wall of the small inestines that are involved in absorption.