The 6 Nutrients
This nutrient is the body's primary and preferred source of energy.
What are carbohydrates?
This is located at the top of a nutrition facts label and tells you the baseline amount of food being measured.
What is serving size?
According to the USDA MyPlate guidelines, your dinner plate should always be filled halfway with these two food groups.
What are fruits and vegetables?
This is the minimum amount of time you should rub your hands with soap and warm water before eating or preparing food.
What is 20 seconds?
This type of diabetes can often be delayed or entirely prevented by eating healthy, staying active, and maintaining an appropriate weight.
What is Type 2 Diabetes?
Your body is made up of roughly 60% of this life-sustaining nutrient, and you can only survive a few days without it.
What is water?
This unit of measurement represents the amount of energy your body gets from a serving of food.
What is a calorie?
Oatmeal, brown rice, and whole-wheat bread belong to this specific category of grains, which are higher in fiber.
What are whole grains?
This critical kitchen mistake happens when bacteria spreads from raw meat or poultry onto ready-to-eat foods like raw vegetables.
What is cross-contamination?
This powerful external force can negatively warp our body image by promoting unrealistic expectations of how we "should" look.
What is social media?
This nutrient is essential for building, maintaining, and repairing body tissues like muscles.
What is protein?
This percentage metric on a label helps you see if a food item is high or low in a specific nutrient based on a daily diet.
What is Percent Daily Value (%DV)?
This food group provides calcium and vitamin D to build strong bones, and teens need about 3 cups of it a day.
What is Dairy?
These are the four simple, core steps outlined by health agencies to practice proper food safety at home.
What are clean, separate, cook, and chill?
Instead of relying on sugary energy drinks that cause a crash, athletes should focus on eating complex carbs and getting natural energy from these plant foods.
What are whole grains, fruits, nuts, or legumes?
This structural nutrient group does not provide direct energy, but it includes essential elements like calcium, iron, and sodium.
What are minerals?
Ingredients on a food packaging list are always organized and ranked in this specific structural order.
What is descending order by weight? (Highest weight to lowest weight)
Botanically speaking, tomatoes, cucumbers, and pumpkins belong to this group because they contain internal seeds, even though we treat them as vegetables.
What is fruit?
Perishable foods left out on a counter will quickly enter this temperature range (40°F–140°F) where bacteria rapidly multiply.
What is the Danger Zone?
This serious eating disorder is characterized by a dangerous cycle of binging (overeating) followed by purging (forced vomiting or laxative abuse).
What is bulimia nervosa?
These are the two types of vitamins: one type dissolves in water, while the other type is stored in the body's fatty tissue.
What are water-soluble and fat-soluble vitamins?
To be legally labeled as "reduced" or "less" of a nutrient (like fat or sodium), the food must contain at least this percentage less than the original version.
What is 25%?
Eggs, beans, nuts, tofu, and lean meats are all excellent sources of nutrients within this specific MyPlate food group.
What is the Protein Foods group?
To safely destroy harmful bacteria, poultry (chicken and turkey) must be cooked to this minimum internal temperature.
What is 165°F?
This complex chemical compound is found in plant foods; humans cannot digest it, but it cleans out our digestive tract and keeps our gut healthy.
What is dietary fiber?