Food Groups
This food group includes apples, bananas, and grapes
What are fruits?
This nutrient helps your body stay hydrated and makes up most of your body.
What is water?
You should do this before eating to prevent spreading germs.
What is washing your hands?
These numbers on food packages tell you how many nutrients and calories are in the food.
What are the nutrition food labels?
Name one reason why eating too much sugar is not healthy
What are weight gain, energy crashes, and tooth decay?
This food group helps build strong muscles and includes foods like chicken and beans
What is protein?
This nutrient gives you energy and comes in simple and complex forms.
What are carbohydrates?
Two reasons why you should drink water.
What keeps you hydrated and helps with your digestion, keeps your body working, keeps you focused, and replenishes the water that was lost.
A snack like carrots and hummus is healthier than this popular salty, crunch snack.
What are the three things that fat foods are high in ? nutrients wise
What are sodium, sugar, and fat?
Milk, cheese, and yogurt belong to this food group
What is dairy products?
This nutrient helps your body heal cuts and grow strong tissues/muscles. It is also part of the food group
What are proteins?
Eating different foods from all the food groups give you a _______ diet.
What is a balanced diet?
This tells you how much energy the food gives your body.
What are calories?
Name one benefit of eating breakfast every day
Which food group gives the most energy?
What are grains?
This fruit has the most vitamin C
What are oranges?
Drinking too many sugary drinks and eating too much candy can lead to this condition that affects teeth.
What are cavities?
What nutrients on the food labels do you want more of?
Fiber, any vitamins, calcium, iron, and protein
Eating too much sugar can give you a quick boost of energy, followed by this
What is an energy crash?
If you remember how the MyPlate looks, which food groups do you need most of? There are two answers
What are vegetables and grains?
This mineral keeps your bones strong and is found in dairy foods.
What is calcium?
How much water should you be drinking a day
What is 6 to 8 cups?
What nutrients on the food labels should you watch out for. Give me two examples
What are added sugars, saturated fat, trans fat, and sodium(salt)
Fiber helps your body with this process
What is digestion?