Meals
True/False Eating three meals a day is best for our bodies
Yes!
Eating three meals a day gives us lasting energy, allows time for digestion, and fits around our social lives!
This or That: Which option is more nutritious?
Baked potato OR Baked sweet potato?
Baked Sweet Potato!
Both potatoes are needed for a healthy diet. However, a sweet potato has more vitamins such as vitamin A!
Which food digests faster?
White bread OR Carrots?
White bread!
Because white bread is made up of mostly simple sugars and carbohydrates, our body breaks it down fast! Meanwhile, a carrot is complex with vitamins and minerals our body needs to sort through!
Fact (true) or Fiction (not true):
There is a five second rule when you drop food on the ground.
Germs can latch onto food faster than you can say oh no!
Next time you drop something on the floor, no matter how fast you grab it, it's best to throw it away to avoid getting sick!
Which one has more sugar?
A Chocolate Hersey's candy bar OR A bottle of Gatorade?
Gatorade!
Gatorade has 34 grams of sugar while a Chocolate Hersey's candy bar has 21 grams of sugar!
True/False There are breakfast foods, lunch foods, and dinner foods. These cannot be switched. Example (Breakfast foods can't be eaten at lunch).
False!
There are things considered to be breakfast, lunch, or dinner foods, but they can be eaten at any time of the day!
This or That: Which is more nutritious?
Fresh fruit at the store OR Frozen fruit at the store?
Frozen Fruit!
Fruit that is frozen is picked a peak times and flash frozen to keep its original freshness.
Meanwhile, fresh fruit at the store is picked before it is ripe in order to have longer freshness on the shelfs. If it isn't bought, it does start to rot, and the store has to throw it away!
Which food digests faster?
Whole Milk or Whole Chocolate Milk?
Chocolate Milk!
Chocolate Milk digests faster because a portion of the milk is replaced with Cocoa which can be helpful digesting proteins!
Fact (true) or Fiction (not true):
White chocolate is actual chocolate
We call white chocolate "Chocolate", but it isn't real chocolate. Real chocolate contains coco that gives it the brown coloring and flavor, white chocolate is missing it.
Which one has more sugar?
A carton of TruMoo chocolate milk OR Coconut water?
Coconut water!
Coconut water has 20g of sugar while TruMoo chocolate milk has 18g!
True/False Breakfast is the most important meal of the day!
False!
Every meal is equally important! It doesn't matter when you eat, it matters what you eat! Listening to your body when you're hungry!
This or That: Which is more nutritious?
Handful of Fresh fruits OR handful of dried fresh fruits?
Fresh fruits!
Dried fresh fruits often contain more sugar because all the water has been removed! This also means that the fruit is smaller in size because of the water loss, concentrating more sugar per handful.
Which digests faster?
Ground beef OR Chicken
Ground beef!
Because the beef is made of mostly protein, our body is able to break the protein apart and disperse it faster! Chicken that is primarily made of more fats and carbohydrates with less protein- making it harder to stomach!
Fact (true) vs Fiction (not true):
Eating a watermelon seed might lead to growing a watermelon in your stomach!
Fiction (NOT true)
Although it is funny to think a watermelon can grow in your stomach, with no sunlight and tons of harsh stomach acid a cute watermelon could never survive (nor would we want it to).
Which has more sugar?
Danimals yogurt OR Rasins?
Rasins!
Rasins have 19g of sugar, while Danimals have 10g of sugar!
True/False Is it ok to eat only one meal a day? How about only 2 meals a day?
Yes!
It is ok to only eat one or two meals a day. Our bodies have stored energy. As long as we are listening to our body and our body's needs, we can be ok eating less than three meals!
This or That: Which way of eating a tomato is more nutritious?
Blending the tomato OR steaming the tomato
Steaming the tomato!
Did you know steaming a tomato changes the chemicals within the tomato, releasing nutrients that can actually help prevent cancer! How cool!
Which digests faster?
Grapes or an Apple?
An apple!
An apple takes 20 minutes to digest while grapes take 30 minutes to digest. This is because of the insoluble fibers found in grapes meaning longer processing!
Fact (true) or Fiction (not true):
An apple a day can keep the doctor away
Fiction (NOT true):
Even though it rhymes and is fun to say, an apple indeed does not keep the doctor away. Apples contain necessary vitamins and is good for health, but apples can't help with fighting off bacteria.
Which one has more sugar?
Campbell's tomato soup OR Pizza Lunchable?
Campbell's tomato soup!
Campbells tomato soup has 20g of sugar while a pizza lunchable has only 5g of sugar!
True/False Can I eat right after a meal if I'm still hungry?
False!
It takes 20 minutes for your stomach to talk to your brain and realize that it has eaten! It's important to wait for a snack after a meal!
This or That: Which milk is more nutritious?
Cow Milk OR Goats Milk OR Both?
Trick question: It's both!
Both cow's milk and goats' milk are similar with their nutritious properties!
Which digests faster?
Watermelon OR cantaloupe? OR Both?
Trick question!
It's both! Watermelon and cantaloupe are both from the melon family. They both contain the same structure when it comes to breakdown in the stomach, meaning they take the same amount of time!
Fact (true) or Fiction (not true):
Spicy foods don't burn our mouths
Fact (True!)
Spicy foods don't burn! Foods that are "spicy" contain a certain chemical that when interacting with our tongue send messages to our brain that its HOT! When in reality, the food does nothing to our mouths! Pain from spicy foods is all in our head!
Which has more sugar?
Waffles with syrup OR Cotton Candy?
Cotton Candy!
This one is tricky, but Cotton Candy is made almost completely of sugar!