Food first enters this part of the digestive system, which has both the tongue and the teeth inside of it.
What is the mouth?
100
This is one unit of energy given to us by our food, and is found at the top of a nutrition panel on food packages.
What is a calorie?
100
Carbohydrates are chains made up of this substance.
What is sugar?
100
True or false: To stay healthy, we need to eat foods with fat in them.
What is true?
100
Protein is found in this part of your body.
What is all of your cells?
200
This part of the digestive system connects the mouth to the stomach and is found in your throat.
What is the esophagus?
200
This is what scientists do to food in order to measure how many calories there are in it, and we watched a video of it.
What is setting food on fire?
200
A "disaccharide" contains this many sugar molecules chained together.
What is two?
200
Healthy fats can usually be found in these types of foods.
What is plants or fish?
200
This is one of the main sources of protein in our diet.
What is meat, dairy, fish, or plants?
300
This part of the digestive system is really, really long, and is responsible for sucking up all the nutrients out of the digested food.
What is the small intestine?
300
This is something we can do with our bodies in order to make sure the amount of calories we eat gets used up in one day.
What is exercise?
300
Monosaccharides are found in these kinds of foods, and can make you feel hyper and then crash.
What is candy, cakes, cupcakes, and other desserts with added sugar?
300
If we eat too many unhealthy fats, this is what happens to the arteries that connect to our heart.
What is clogged or blocked?
300
This is one of the four ways our bodies use protein.
What is to grow, to repair, to feel full, or to give us energy?
400
This substance is found in your stomach and is used to help chemically break down food even further before it enters the intestine.
What is acid or hydrochloric acid?
400
Of the three major nutrients found in food -- carbohydrates, fats, and proteins -- this nutrient has the most calories per gram.
What is fat?
400
This word means "many sugars," and is the healthiest form of carbohydrate found in whole-grain foods.
What is polysaccharide?
400
This is the name of the healthy fats we should try to eat.
What is unsaturated?
400
This is an example of a kind of protein that is NOT heart-healthy.
What is bacon, pork chops, hamburgers, hot dogs, or other saturated fat meat product?
500
This part of the digestive system is shorter than the small intestine, but much wider, and is the place where our body sucks up as much water as it can from our digested food.
What is the large intestine?
500
This is one of the factors that determine how many calories you should consume in a single day.
What is age, weight, gender, amount of exercise, amount of fat and muscle on your body, or other health concerns.
500
This form of polysaccharide carbohydrate cannot be digested by the human body, but is very important for digestive health, and is found in whole-grain foods.
What is fiber?
500
This much of our diet should be made up of healthy fats.
What is thirty percent?
500
This is an example of a heart-healthy protein.
What is nuts, fish, low-fat dairy, lean chicken, or lean turkey?