Veggies
Christmas Foods/Facts
Baking
Random Foods
Vitamins and Minerals
100

This "vegetable" is actually a fruit. The confusion arose after the 1890s when the US supreme court named them a vegetable for taxation purposes.

What is a tomato?

100

The tradition for leaving cookies for Santa started when Christmas Trees used to be decorated with ___________ and those decorations would disappear during the night, so it was speculated that Santa had a late-night snack while delivering presents.

What is food?

100
The addition of "too much" of this ingredient while baking results in a brittle, thin and flat cookie.
What is sugar?
100

The primary source of energy for our brains

What is glucose?

100

This vitamin is found in many foods, such as green leafy vegetables, sweet potatoes, carrots, broccoli, mangoes, apricots, etc. It is important for normal vision, the immune system, reproduction, and growth and development.

What is Vitamin A? 

200

This vegetable's skin/outer layer can be used to erase pen writing!

What is a cucumber?

200

The first eggnog is believed to have been introduced in America in 1607 in the British colony of this state.

What is Virginia?

200

This macronutrient provides flavor, texture, and a creamy mouth feel when tasted.

What are fats?

200

This food/supplement contains live microorganisms that benefit human health. They are found in fermented food products like yogurt, miso, and sauerkraut.

What are probiotics?

200

This vitamin is essential for the body to make DNA, RNA, and metabolize amino acids which are required for cell division. As humans cannot make this vitamin, it is required from the diet, making it an essential vitamin.

What is folic acid, or vitamin B9?

300

This vegetable has their own immune system!

What are mushrooms?

300

These type of 'crackers' were first introduced around Christmastime in 1902. The string on the box was originally intended to be used to hang the boxes on Christmas trees.

What are animal crackers?

300

These are a leavening agent and add fat, which makes baked goods tender and light. The yolks also emulsify for a smooth texture, and the proteins contribute to the structure 

What are eggs?

300

While cutting an onion, you can hold this food in your mouth to avoid crying.

What is a slice of bread?

300

This vitamin is also an antioxidant that helps protect your cells against the effects of free radicals (sun, smoking, x-rays, and other sources). This vitamin is found in potatoes, peppers, and tomatoes.

What is Vitamin C?

400

The city of Chicago was named after this vegetable. "Chicagaoua" was the Indian word for this wild vegetable.

What is garlic?

400

Sugar Plums are not actually plums. In the 1600s the term “plum” meant any type of ________ fruit.

What is "dried" fruit?

400

This food used in baking is considered to be a base and produces carbon dioxide in the presence of moisture and acid. An acid (buttermilk, lemon juice, orange juice) must be present for a mixture to expand and rise.

What is baking soda?

400

This fruit first appeared in the 17th century when the Cinderella fairy tale was written.

What is pumpkin?

400

This mineral is important for the immune system, helping to fight off infections and diseases. Deficiency of this mineral can cause fatigue, weakness, and other health problems. 

What is iron?

500

This vegetable is known as "crazy apple" in Italy due to widespread belief that meal plan's rich in this vegetable leads to madness.

What are eggplants?

500

The fruit cake was designed to last how long? 


What is all year?

When the fruit cake first came about, it was baked at the end of the harvest season and saved to be eaten at the beginning of the next harvest season.

500

Ancient Egyptians were the first to use this baking ingredient to make bread rise.

What is yeast?

500

This food (vegetable) was paid as 'wages' to the Ancient Egyptian laborer's who built the Pyramids.

What are radishes?
500

This vitamin is also known as Vitamin B1, and helps with nerve tissue, our digestive system, and energy levels.

What is Thiamin?