Grain Quizziz

Any food made from wheat, rice, oats, cornmeal, barley, or another cereal grain is in the grains group.

• True

• False

Folate (from foods such as spinach and black-eyed peas) and folic acid (from fortified foods such as enriched grains and from supplements) are especially important for which of the following groups?

• Children under 2 years old

• Athletes

• Women of childbearing age

• All of these

What is the most common food from the Grain Group eaten in the United States?

• Tortillas

• Bread

• White rice

• Popcorn

• Pancakes

What is the best way to know that the bread you are buying is a whole-grain bread?

• The bread tastes "grainy."

• Bread is brown in color.

• The label says "100% wheat."

• Another customer says so.

• Any ingredient includes the word "whole"

What food made from grains is pictured here?

• Corn bread

• Pita Bread

• Flour tortilla

• English muffin

Refined grains are grains that have been milled, a process that removes the bran and germ. This is done to give grains a finer texture and improve their shelf life, but it also removes dietary fiber, iron, and many B vitamins. Which of these foods is a refined grain?

• Oatmeal

• Bulgur (cracked wheat)

• White rice

• Popcorn

• All of the above

The Grains Group could also be called the Carbohydrate Group because all foods that contain carbohydrates are in the Grains Group.

• True

• False

Many people do not eat the recommended amount of whole grains. To eat more whole grain foods, you should just add more of them to what you already eat.

• True

• False

About how much of the grains you eat should be whole grains?

• None

• One quarter

• One half

• All of them

Which of these grain products is available in both refined and whole grain varieties?

• Pasta

• Bread

• Cornbread

• Crackers

• All of the above