Canada's Food Guide
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100

This food group should represent 50% of every meal.

What are fruits and vegetables?

100

These fibrous little guys are the large seeds of certain types of plants, and are technically a fruit.

What are beans?

100

This is the most unhealthy Starbucks drink choice coming in at a whopping 520 calories for a Grande.

What is the White Chocolate Mocha Frappuccino with whipped cream?

100

This fruit is the most calorific per gram.

What is the avocado?

100

This popular Italian food can often include four different food groups.

What is pizza?

200

The symbol for this element is Ca and it is needed to keep bones healthy and strong.

What is Calcium?

200

Beans are members of this plant family.

What are legumes?

200

This type of diabetes formerly was seen only in adults, but is now also seen in children due to inactivity and poor nutrition.

What is Type 2 Diabetes?

200

This is the French term used to describe mixed raw vegetables, often served with a dipping sauce.

What are Crudités?

200

This fruit is low in calories, high in nutrients, is one of the best sources of antioxidant, and helps your cells regenerate normally.

What are blueberries?

300

You get this nutrient from meat, poultry, eggs, and fish.

What is Protein?

300

This phrase means to reveal secret information unintentionally or indiscreetly.

What is "Spill the beans"?

300

This fast food restaurant introduced a popular advertising campaign in 1997 that featured a talking chihuahua.

What is Taco Bell?

300

Eating more fruit, vegetables, and whole grains and eating less processed meats can help prevent this disease.

What is cancer?

300

Of all the artists that share their name exactly with a foodstuff, this artist(s) has sold the most records.

Who are the Red Hot Chili Peppers?

400

This is the name for foods that are not processed. 

What are whole foods?

400

This confection is primarily made of sugar and sold in a wide variety of colours and flavours.

What are jelly beans?

400

This fast food restaurant is credited with introducing the first modern-day drive-thru window.

What is Wendy's?

400

Vitamin A, B and C, and Magnesium, Phosphate and Calcium are all examples of these.

What are Micronutrients?

400

This deep-yellow spice is known to ease depression and helps generate new brain cell growth.

What is Turmeric?

500

This is the name for vegetables in the cabbage family such as cabbage, bok choy, and cauliflower.

What are cruciferous vegetables?

500

In Spanish, this bean's name is "speckled bean" and is the most popular bean by crop production in Northern Mexico and the Southwestern United States.  It is most often eaten whole, or mashed and then refried.

What are Pinto beans?

500

This fat is a type of fat in which the fatty acid chains have all or predominantly single bonds.

What is Saturated Fat?

500

This vitamin is associated with vision.

What is Vitamin A?

500

Early references to this British fast food staple can be found in two novels by Charles Dickens.

What are Fish and Chips?