Nutrition | Whats in your food? | Eating Patterns | Food Affects | Food Preferences |
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Nutrition
What is the process of choosing and consuming food necessary for health and growth?
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Minerals
What is inorganic nutrients absorbed from plants, water, and animal food sources?
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Dietary Guidelines for Americans
What is the guidelines published by the USDA and HHS that provide recommendations for establishing eating patterns to promote health?
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Empty Calories
What is units of energy that supple few or no nutrients to the body
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Food Additives
What is substances added to food products to cause desired changes to flavor, shelf life, or other reasons
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Nutrients
What is chemical substances that provide the nutrition essential for growth, energy, and function?
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Water- dissolves in water, used immediately.
Fat- dissolves in the body's fat, can be stored for later.
What is the difference between water- soluble vitamins and fat soluble vitamins?
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My Plate
What is the food guidance system created by the USDA reminds people about the proportions of the five different food groups the should eat at a meal?
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Food Allergy
What is the condition in which the body's immune system reacts to a food as if the food symptoms can be caused by tiny amounts of the food?
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Nutrition Facts Label
What is the FDA- required label on all packaged foods, contains information about serving size number or servings, number of calories, amounts of different nutrients, and daily values for nutrients?
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Carbohydrates
What is nutrients that are the major source of energy for the body? can be found in fruits, vegetables, grains and dairy products.
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Saturated Fats
What is the type of fat found primarily in animal-based foods, are typically solid at room temperature?
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Calories
What is the units of energy in food?
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Food Intolerance
What is the condition in which a person's body cannot properly digest particular types of food, can develop gradually as a person eats large quantities of a certain food frequently?
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Organic
What is food produced without the use of chemical fertilizers, pesticides, or other artificial chemicals?
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Glucose
What is a simple carbohydrate and the preferred source of energy for the brain and central nervous system?
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Unsaturated Fats
What is the type of fat found in plant-based foods. are liquid at room temperature?
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Nutrient-Dense Foods
What is foods that provide vitamins, minerals, and other substances that either contribute to adequate nutrition intake or have positive health effects contain little or no saturated fats, added sugars, refined starches and sodium?
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Malnutrition
What is the form of poor nutrition in which a person does not get or properly absorb the recommended amounts of essential nutrients.
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Food Intoxication
What is a food-borne illness caused by toxins which are produced by organisms present in the food?
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Protein
What is a nutrient the body used to build and maintain cells and tissues and provide energy, may also act as hormones or enzymes?
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Trans Fats
What is the type of fat historically found in many processed foods, can also occur naturally in animal-based foods?
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Added Sugars
What is sugars that do not occur naturally in foods?
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Over-nutrition
What is the form or malnutrition caused by consuming too many of some nutrients?
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Genetics, age, cultural background, thoughts and feelings.
What is food preferences affected by?
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