Food & Nutrition - Carbohydrates & Cereals

The 3 categories of carbohydrates are:

• Monosaccharide, disaccharide, polysaccharide
• glucose, fructose, galatose
• starch, cellulose, chitin
• There are no categories of carbohydrates

______________ carbohydrates supply longer lasting energy.

• simple
• complex

If we eat too much carbohydrate it is stored in the body as ___?

• fat
• extra cells
• flouride

Which is not a chemical element needed to build sugars?

• Carbon
• Oxygen
• Nitrogen
• Hydrogen

Which health problems is a consequence of eating too much added sugar? 

• overweight
• heart disease
• diabetes
• all of the above

Which carbohydrate provides the most bulk to the diet? 

• Fructose 
• Lactose 
• Fiber 
• Sucrose

___________ is sugar found in fruit, honey and vegetables.

• Maltose
• Lactose
• Fructose
• Sucrose

To stay healthy, you should eat more simple carbohydrates than complex carbohydrates

• True
• False

Lactose is found in....

• Milk
• Milk products
• All of the above

What is sucrose made up of?

• Glucose and Fructose
• Fructose and Lactose
• Galactose and Glucose
• Glucose and Lactose