Food Groups
This food group includes bread, pasta, rice and cereal products and provides you with energy.
What is the Grain Products group?
This vitamin is important for healing wounds and repairing body tissue. This vitamin is known for being in citrus fruits such as oranges.
What is Vitamin C?
According to MyPlate, Fruits & Vegetables should take up this amount of your plate.
Too much pop can lead to this problem.
What are cavities and tooth decay?
Although often considered a vegetable, this food is actually a fruit.
What is a tomato?
This food group contains yogurt, milk and cheese.
What is the Dairy food group?
This vitamin and this mineral are found in the Dairy food group.
What are Vitamin D and Calcium?
You should have 3 servings of this daily.
What is dairy?
These two things can reduce your risk of High blood pressure, Heart disease, and Type 2 diabetes.
What are healthy diet and regular exercise?
Possible answers: piece of fruit, low-fat or fat free yogurt, veggies and hummus or yogurt-based dip, nuts, smoothie.
You need at least 4-5 servings per day from this food group.
What is the Fruits & Vegetables food group?
Carrots, sweet potatoes and cantaloupe are good sources of Vitamin A.
Vitamin A is important for your _______.
What is vision? (or eyes)
According to MyPlate, _______ of your plate should be grains.
What is 1/4?
The blood sugar levels are controlled with diet, exercise and/or insulin in this disease.
What is Diabetes?
Fat-free milk has this name.
What is Skim milk?
Fish, meat, baked beans and peanut butter are all in this food group.
What is the Protein food group?
This is known as the sunshine vitamin.
What is Vitamin D?
This cooking method adds the most fat:
1. Broiling
2. Baking
3. Grilling
4. Deep Frying
5. Sautéing
What is deep frying?
Eating too many foods high in fat can cause these health problems.
What are high cholesterol and heart disease?
One of the following is NOT a healthy snacking tip
1. Smaller portions
2. Avoiding eating while sitting in front of the TV
3. Choosing low fat foods from MyPlate
4. Eating fast so you do not feel too full
What is eating fast so you do not feel too full?
This food group is divided into 5 subgroups based on nutrient content: 1) dark green, 2) red and orange, 3) beans, peas and lentils, 4) starchy, 5) other.
What is the Vegetable food group?
Spinach and liver provide a good source of this mineral.
What is Iron?
True or False: Whole milk provide more vitamins and minerals than low-fat or skim milk.
FALSE!
Whole milk and skim milk have the same amount of vitamins/minerals, but whole milk has more fat.
Not eating enough iron-rich foods can lead to iron-deficiency anemia, which can make you feel this way.
What is tired, dizzy and short of breath?
One of the following condiments will add extra fat to your meal:
1. Low Fat Salad Dressing
2. Mustard
3. Mayonnaise
4. Ketchup
What is Mayonnaise?