This six classes of nutrients include proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, vitamins, minerals, and which other nutrient?
What is water?
100
This is a tool developed by the USDA to translate nutrient recommendations into food-based recommendations.
What is MyPyramid?
100
This pH best describes the environment of the stomach when stimulated.
What is acidic?
100
These are the three major nutrient classes that are referred to as macronutrients.
What are proteins, carbohydrates, and fats?
100
This is the approximate percentage of pregnancies that are unplanned.
What is 50%?
200
In chemistry terms, an organic compound contains which element?
What is carbon?
200
The acronym DRI stands for these three words.
What are dietary reference intakes?
200
This is the most active area for the absorption of nutrients into the body.
What is the small intestine?
200
Addition of this mineral to municipal drinking water is done in the US to help prevent dental caries.
What is fluoride?
200
Poor growth, facial dysmorphology, and delayed cognitive development are a few characteristics of this syndrome related to the prenatal environment.
What is fetal alcohol syndrome?
300
These type of nutrient cannot be made by the body and must be consumed to maintain health.
What is an essential nutrient?
300
The label on a package of Kool Aid indicates that it contains vitamin C.
The amount listed on the nutrition facts panel is a percentage of what value?
What is the daily value (DV)?
300
This substance, stored in the gallbladder, helps suspend fat in a watery digestive mixture, making fat more available to digestive enzymes.
What is bile?
300
This supplemental food program is available to pregnant women and children through their fifth birthday in Georgia who are at or below 185% of the federal poverty line.
What is the WIC: the Women, Infants, and Children supplemental food program.
300
Intake of certain fish should be limited during pregnancy out of concern for contamination with which neurotoxic mineral?
What is mercury?
400
This term refers to the desire to eat due to psychological (external) influences that encourage us to find and eat food.
What is appetite?
400
This recommendation under the DRIs is designed to be adequate for almost all healthy people.
What is the RDA (recommended dietary allowance)?
400
Most nutrients from the digestive tract enter the liver through this vein.
What is the portal vein?
400
Dark green or orange vegetables and/or fruits are recommended at least every other day to provide a source of this vitamin.
What is vitamin A?
400
This is a longer-term indicator of adequate nutrition than weight in infants and children.
What is length (height)?
500
The amount of heat needed to raise 1 kg of water 1 degree Celsius.
What is 1 Kcalorie?
500
Under the DRIs, a nutrient needing more research before a firm recommendation regarding intake can be established is given a level referred to as this.