Nutrition Label Vocabulary Quiz

Ingredients added during the processing of foods

• Added

• Enriched

• FDA

• Fortified

nutrients added to a food that are not naturally occuring

• FDA

• Fortified

• Functional

• Health Claims

True or False: Nutrients added back to a food after processing are enriched

• True

• False

The agency that regulates nutrition label requirements.

• FDA

• Functional

• Health Claims

• Percent Daily Values

nutrient or ingredient that affects the normal structure or function of the human body (ex: calcium builds strong bones)

• Extra Lean

• Functional

• Low

• Reduced

the FDA allows this to be stated on food products to show that a food or food component may reduce the risk of a disease or health

• Fortified

• Health Claims

• High

• Less

when a food contains a little amount of a specific ingredient or nutrient

• Less

• Light

• Low

• Reduced

product has less of a nutrient or ingredient than the regular product (must be at least 25% less)

• Extra Lean

• Light

• Percent Daily Values

• Reduced

product has less of a nutrient or ingredient than the regular product (must be at least 50% less)

• Extra Lean

• High

• Light

• Low

"less than" recommends eating less than a certain amount per day as outlined by the %DV

• Extra lean

• Less

• Light

• Percent Daily Values