Plant Food
Categories
Media and Label Literacy
Healthy Habits & Plant Based Meals
Food Science Facts
Miscellaneous
Food Detectives
100

If you have a choice what type of food should you eat more of?

What is plant food?

100

The reason why food companies spend so much money on advertising.

What is to get you to buy it?

100

The method used to properly hold food when chopping.

What is the bear claw method?

100

3 categories of Macronutrients 

What is Carbohydrates, Protein, and Fat?

100

You can always get this in the school cafeteria.

What is a plant based meal?
What is Hummus?

200

The 5 categories of plant food.

What is fruit, vegetables, grains, nuts & seeds, and legumes?

200

A tactic food companies use to make their product look good in pictures. 

What is bright colors and food styling?

200

A way people can prevent diet related diseases.

What is eating healthy?
What is exercise?

200
Plant foods always have this and animal foods never do. Hint- it helps clean out your intestines!

What is fiber? 

200

Give an example of a swap you can make to help save water.

What is swapping a animal based meal for a plant one?

300

A food that is categorized as a botanical fruit and culinary vegetable.

What is a tomato?

What is a cucumber?


300

If a label says "No Sugar Added", will there be sugar inside the product?

What is yes there can be naturally occurring sugars?

300
The 3 types of exercise.

What is cardio, strength training, and flexibility. 

300

Americans get most of their calories from this food group. 

What is processed foods?

300
A protein packed grain that is actually a seed. 

Hint- we ate it last week

What is Quinoa? 

400

What categories do the following plant food items belong in: Rice
Carrot
Chickpea
Pumpkin Seeds 

Rice = Grain
Carrot = Vegetable
Chickpea = Legume
Pumpkin Seed = Seeds

400
What we use to compare nutrition information of different products.

What is the Nutrition Fact Label?

400

Minutes of movement we should have per day.

What is 60 minutes or more?

400

What can we eat that provides us (and large mammals) calcium?
Hint- not milk!

What is green leafy vegetables and beans?

400

The type of thinking we use in order to evaluate food labels and food marketing.

What is critical thinking?

500

All plant foods have _________, while all animal foods have__________.

What is fiber and saturated fat?

500
Food Companies use these to make a product taste like something that may not be in the product. 

What is artificial flavors?

500

Give an example of a balanced meal.

What is a meal with all plant food categories.
(i.e. Bean or Apple Nachos, 3 Bean salad with Quinoa, Veggie Burger with lettuce and fruit) 

500

Amount in grams of sugar that children could consume in 1 day.

What is 25 grams?

500

An example of a diet related disease.

What is Diabetes, Cardiovascular disease, Obesity