Vocabulary
Primary nutrients
MyPlate
Nutrition
100

What are substances added to food to preserve flavor or enhance its taste, appearance, or other qualities.

Food additives
100

What is a nutrient that your body needs that requires only very small amounts to function properly. 

Carbohydrates

100

What number calories are based on a nutrition fact label. 

2000

100

The science that interprets the nutrients and other substances in food.

Nutrition 

200

What is produced without the use of fertilizers, pesticides, or other chemicals.  

Organic

200

An inorganic nutrients absorbed from plants, water, and animal food sources. 

Minerals 

200

What percentage of the food must consist of organically produced ingredient. 

95%
200

What does it mean to have poor nutrition

Malnutrition 

300

What’s a tool used to determine whether a person’s weight is healthy for that person‘s height. 

Body mass index

300

What nutrient is used to give you energy and work properly 

Fats 

300

What are most GMO ingredients labeled as. 

Bioengineered.

300

What does it mean to eat very little

Undernutrition 

400

What are stylish weight-loss plans that promise significant weight loss in short periods of time, often through cutting out good groups or buying premise meals. 

Fad diets 

400

A nutrient that is used to develop and function normally. 

Vitamins

400

What does a nutrition label need be called organic 

It needs to have no synthetic fertilizers or pesticides

400

What does it mean to eat to much 

Overnutrition