Food Groups
Vitamins and Minerals
Fruits
100
This food group has bread, rice and pasta products and provides you with energy.
What is the Grain Products group?
100
This is known as the sunshine vitamin
What is Vitamin D?
100
This fruit with a yellow peel is high in potassium and is the most popular fruit in the U.S.
What is a banana?
200
Salad belongs to this food group
What is Vegetables and Fruit?
200
Spinach and liver provide a good source of this mineral.
What is iron
300
You need 2 –3 servings from this food group
What is Meat and Alternatives?
300
This vitamin was missing in the sailor’s diet.
What is Vitamin C?
400
Ice cream belongs to this food group
What is Milk and Milk Products?
400
Adding this mineral to water is believed to provide protection for children’s teeth.
What is Flouride?
500
Pop, candy, and chips are part of this food group.
What is the “Other” food group?
500
This is a component of bone, along with phosphorous and magnesium.
What is calcium?