Nutrients
Food Groups
Nutrition Vocabulary
Miscilenous
100
Chemical substances found in food that the body cannot make
What are essential nutrients?
100
majority of your daily calcium comes from this food group
What is dairy?
100
food and drink regularly eaten.
What is diet?
100
food provides this for you body.
What is energy?
200
starches and sugars that come mainly from plant foods
What are carbohydrates?
200
Half or your plate ate a meal should be fill with these two food groups.
What is fruits and vegtables.
200
study of nutritents in food and the body.
What is nutrition
200
this website allows you to track you food intake and also gives you valid information on nutrition and healthy food choices.
300
substance in food needed for growth and repair of body tissues
What is protien?
300
These are the five main food groups.
What are fruits, grains, vegetables, protien, dairy.
300
energy from food is measured in these
What are calories?
300
this is the goal of eating a healthy diet.
What is maintain an ideal weight?
400
nutritent found in food that do not provide energy to the body
What is vitamins, minerals, or water?
400
This food group contains meat, poultry, fish, beans, anmd seeds.
What is protien group?
400
natural substance needed for digestion, and other bodily functions. One of the six essential nutrients
What is minerals?
400
refers to solid fats and added sugars.
What are empty calories?
500
these are the 6 essential nutrients from food that the body needs. List all six
What are carbohydrates, fats, protien, vitamins, minerals, water.
500
this is how much of your grains that should be whole grains.
What is half whole grains?
500
A waxey fatlike substance in bodt cells, some kinds can clog blood vessels.
What is Cholesterol?
500
this carries nutrients, hormones, and waste products to and from the body's organs.
What is water?