Vitamins
This is known as the sunshine vitamin
what is vitamin D?
Vitamin C helps with absorption of this mineral.
What is iron?
The body breaks down this macronutrient into amino acids
What are proteins?
This fruit, commonly thought of to be a vegetable, originated in South America and without it pizza would never be the same.
What are tomatoes?
The body “spits out” about 1.7 liters of this fluid every day.
What is saliva?
This vitamin is associated with vision
what is vitamin A?
This mineral is found in dairy products, soy products (edamame, tofu), and some leafy greens (e.g. bok choy) plays an essential role in bone and teeth mineralization
What is calcium?
The brain can only use this for energy?
What is glucose?
This fermented cabbage and radish dish is commonly found in Korean cuisine
What is kimchi?
Starch in plants, and glycogen in humans, is a storage form of this
What is energy? (or glucose more specifically)
Sailors at sea for long periods of time suffered from this disease, caused by a lack of vitamin C in their diet.
What is scurvy?
This was the first fortified food, to help prevent goiters (bonus point if you can name what it was fortified with!)
What is salt (fortified with iodine)?
This macronutrient is used for structural support of all cell membranes
What are fats?
This grain product, made of maize dough, is commonly found in Columbian and Venezuelan cuisine and can be stuffed with a variety of items including beans, cheese, plantains, and/or beef
What is an arepa?
Malnourished girls/women, as well as postmenopausal women, have a higher risk of osteoporosis because their bodies produce less of this hormone.
What is estrogen?
This vitamin acts as an antioxidant as well as helps to ensure the health of our largest organ…skin!
What is Vitamin E?
This mineral has a role in wound healing, immunity, taste, smell and breakdown of all macronutrients.
What is zinc?
This macronutrient is used to produce hormones
What is fat? Or what are proteins? (Both are correct)
These foods make up the traditional English dish of “bangers and mash”.
What are sausages and potatoes?
This organ functions as part of the immune system, and contributes to the production and storage of red blood cells.
What is the spleen?
Deficiency of this vitamin, which can be caused by a low intake of whole grains is called Beri Beri.
Bonus 100: what foods are this vitamin found in?
What is thiamin (B1)?
What are grains (breads, cereals, whole or fortified grains), meat, fish, seeds
Along with calcium and phosphorus, this mineral, commonly found in nuts, legumes and chocolate, supports bone mineralization
What is magnesium?
This macronutrient is used to make antibodies, which help to defend against “foreign invaders” that enter our body.
What are proteins?
This root vegetable, a close relative of parsley, originated in Afghanistan and was used for medicinal purposes.
What is the carrot?
This one organ uses almost a quarter of our total daily energy expenditure
What is the liver?