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Minerals 101
100
This is the primary food for your brain.
What is glucose?
100
This is where food is broken down into smaller pieces and digestion of food begins.
What is the mouth?
100
Theses are the most hydrating foods to eat, they are 96% water.
What are cucumbers?
100
This is a non-food source of vitamin D.
What is sunlight?
100
Adding this mineral to water is believed to provide protection for teeth.
What is flouride?
200
This nutrient makes up more than half of your body. It helps break down foods and carries away waste.
What is water?
200
The tube in which food passess from the mouth to the stomach.
What is the esophagus?
200
This is the only fruit with seeds on the outside.
What are strawberries?
200
This vitamin helps your body absorb calcium.
What is vitamin D?
200
This is a component of bone, along with phosphorus and magnesium.
What is calcium?
300
This is the indigestible component of plant foods.
What is fiber?
300
This organ stores and releases bile to aid in the digestion of fat
What is the gallbladder?
300
This is the staple food of majority of the worlds population.
What is rice?
300
Scurvy is a deficiency resulting from too little of this vitamin in the diet.
What is vitamin C?
300
Spinach and liver provide a good source of this mineral.
What is iron?
400
This macronutrient cannot be stored as a reserve in the body. It must be eaten daily.
What is protein?
400
This is where digestive juices finish breaking down proteins, carbohydrates and fats.
What is the small intestine?
400
More than 7 billion of these are consumed by Americans between Memorial Day and Labor Day each year.
What are hot dogs?
400
This vitamin is associated with vision.
What is vitamin A?
400
This mineral is involved in the control of blood pressure and muscle contraction.
What is sodium?
500
This macronutrient aids in the absorption of Vitamins A, E, D and K.
What is fat?
500
This is were water is removed from undigested food.
What is the large intestine?
500
This fruit will float in water because 25% of their volume is made of air.
What are apples?
500
Vitamin A, vitamin E and vitamin C are examples of this.
What is an antioxidant?
500
This mineral helps to maintain fluid and electolyte balance in the body. (hint: potatoes are a good source)
What is potassium?