What should you eat least of per day
a. vegetables
b. protein
c. carbohydrates
d. sugar
d. sugar
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How many servings of Fruit and Veg should you have a day?
5 a day
100
What measures calories?
What is a caloriometer
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What kind of fat is an avocado? Is it healthy or not?
What is an unsaturated fat so it is healthy
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What measures energy in food?
a. kilograms
b. meters
c. kilojoules
d. grams
What is kilojoules
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What is the healthiest type of fat?
a. saturated fat
b. unsaturated fat
c. transfat
d. omega fat
What is b. unsaturated fat
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Which is not part of the fruit and vegetable group
a. carrot
b. potato
c. tomato
d. apple
What is potato (starch group)
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How do we measure energy in food and how does it work?
What is a caloriometer.
WE burn food and measure the temperature difference in the water before and after we burn the food
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What is not a fruit and vegetable?
a. green beans
b. lentil beans
c. cabbage
d. broccoli
What is b. lentil beans
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What doe a caloriometer tell us and what do the different colors mean?
A caloriometer tells the amount of a nutrient in a food. If it is red there is a large amount of that nutrient in the food (so it may be unhealty to have too much) If it is green there is a low amount of the nutrient and if it is amber there is a medium amount of the nutrient.
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What do amino acids make up?
a. carbohydrates
b. vitamins
c. minerals
d. proteins
What is d. proteins
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Where would white bread be placed on the healty eating pyramid? Where would whole grain bread be placed on the healthy eating pryamid?
White on the top because it is a refined grain (sugar mostly)
Whole grain on bottom because it is a healthy greain
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How do you test for protein? Give 4 steps and tell what positive test shows
1. Crush food and add water and put in boiling tube
2. Add Buirets solution
3. Shake
4. If it turns purple protein is present
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What is the name for a substance that provides nourishment for growth, energy, repair and maintainence of life called?
a. calorie
b. nutrient
c. vitamin
d. mineral
What is b. nutrient
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Which are all nutrients?
a. carbohydrates, vitamins, proteins, plasma
b. vitamins, fats, minerals, plasma
c. proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals
d. vitamins, glucose, minerals, plasma
What is c.
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What nutrients are needed to get energy (calories)?
a. fat, water, protein
b. fat, minerals, plasma
c. fat, carbs, protein
d. carbs, vitamins, minerals
What is c. fat, carbs, proteins
400
What are the 2 ways to test for fats and tell what you will see if fat is present.
What is
Filter paper (to test for solid fat) - turns translucent
Ethylene (dissolves liquid fat)- turns into a white emulsion
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How do you test for glucose (tell the 4 steps and tell what positive test shows) ?
1. Place food in boiling tube
2. Add water
3. Add Benedicts solution and heat up on bunsen burner
4. If it it turns orange after 2-3 min, glucose is present
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What is the most unhealty type of fats that you should avoid completely?
What is transfats
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What are the 3 types of carbohydrates? Give an example of each.
What is sugar (candy bar) starch (potato), fiber (porridge)
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What is placed at the top of the healthy eating pyramid and what is at the bottom? WhY?
Sweets and fats are at the top (eat a little) and fruits and vegetables and whole grains are at the bottom (eat alot)
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Tell what each tests for and what color it turns if it is present:
Iodine- tests for _______ and turns _________
Benedict- tests for _______ and turns ________
Buiret- tests for _________ and turns ________
What is
Iodine tests for starch and turns black
Benedict tests for sugar (glucose) and turns orange
Buiret tests for protein and turns purple
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What does exercise help you do (use the word KiloJoules in your answer)
Exercise helps you burn off the kilojoules (energy calories) you get from food
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What do vitamins and minerals do for the body?
a. store fat
b. keep heat in the body
c. give energy
d. carry out metabolic reactions