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Guidelines that discuss food groups, foods, and nutrients to eat for optimal health.
What is Dietary recommendations
Whole grains have more ________________ than refined grains.
What is Dietary Fiber
Fats found mostly in animal foods such as meat, chicken, eggs, milk, butter, and cheese, as well as some oils that have been hydrogenated to make stick margarine and shortening. Saturated fats are known to raise levels of bad cholesterol in the blood, which is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease.
What is Saturated fats
What is True
A set of values developed by the Food and Drug Administration that are used as a reference for expressing nutrition content on nutrition labels.
What is daily value
A food guide developed by the US Department of Agriculture as a guide to the amounts of different types of foods needed to provide an adequate diet and comply with current nutrition recommendations.
What is MyPlate
Sodium is primarily consumed as ...
What is Salt
Plant species that have seed pods that split along both sides when ripe. Some of the more common legumes are beans, peas, and lentils.
What is Legumes
Whereas dietary recommendations discuss specific foods to eat for optimum health, food guides tell us the amounts of foods we need to eat to have a nutritionally adequate diet.
What is True
Unsaturated fatty acids found mostly in foods that have been hydrogenated such as shortening or margarine. Act like saturated fats in the body to raise blood cholesterol levels.
What is Trans Fats
Kcalories from saturated fats and/or added sugars that add few or no nutrients to foods.
What is Empty kcalories
The percentage of the Daily Value (%DV) is based on a _________ kcalorie diet.
What is 2000
Grains and grain products made from the entire grain seed, usually called the kernel, which consists of the bran, germ, and endosperm.
What is whole grains
White rice is a whole grain.
What is True
A substance in food that causes an abnormal allergic response in the body triggered by the immune system. Allergic reactions to food can sometimes cause serious illness and death.
What is Food Allergens
A measure of the nutrients provided in a food per kcalorie of that food.
What is Nutrient density
Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs) are quite different from dietary recommendations because DRIs deal with specific:
What is Nutrients
Guidelines that tell us the kinds and amounts of foods to make a nutritionally adequate diet. They are typically based on current dietary recommendations, the nutrient content of foods, and the eating habits of the targeted population.
Butter is counted in the dairy group.
What is False
The part of a seed which acts as a food store for the developing plant embryo, usually containing starch with protein and other nutrients.
What is the Endosperm
Sugars, syrups, and other kcaloric sweeteners that are added to foods during processing, preparation, or consumed separately; do not include naturally occurring sugars such as those in fruit or milk.
What is Added Sugars
Refined grain products contain the ...
What is only the Endosperm
Grains and grain products missing the bran and germ; any grain product that is not a whole grain
What is refined grains
Processed and restaurant foods are high in sodium.
What is true
Claims on food labels about the nutrient composition of a food, such as “good source of fiber.” Regulated by the US Food and Drug Administration.
What is Nutrient content claims