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Total questions: 37
Worksheet time: 1hrs 11mins
Nutrition labels include:
Nutrition Facts Table
Ingredient lists
Optional Nutrition Claims
All of the above
How many core nutrients are there?
None
9
13
They are all core nutrients
The serving size of food is located where on a nutrition table?
Top
Bottom
MIddle
Anywhere
The goal of including nutrition labeling is to:
Force people to read
Use the Canada's Food Guide
Achieve overall good health
All of the above
In Canada, nutrition labeling has been mandatory since:
Just after WW2
2007
2016
It is not mandatory
The Government of Canada has recently restructured the nutrition label guidelines to:
Make it easier to use
Because it was no longer effective
To include those who have difficulty reading
It was not restructured recently
Which of the following must have a nutrition facts table?
Coffee
Raw chicken
Ground meat
Apples
Foods that have been prepared in store such as pre-made salad need to include a nutrition label.
True
False
Food (such as a pie) purchased from the Millwoods Farmers Market must have a nutrition label.
True
False
What percentage is used to say if something contains a "little" of the daily value of a nutrient?
0%
5%
15%
50%
What percentage is used to say if something contains a "lot" of the daily value of a nutrient?
0%
5%
15%
50%
The specific amount of a serving size can be indicated by:
It does not need to be indicated
A phrase followed by a metric measure
A phrase without any other info
Any indication
A metric measure always need to follow:
A fraction of a unit of food
A household unit
A phrase
Any indication of food
Which of the following is a phrase?
1/4 of a pizza
5 cups
1 egg
250 ml
Which of the following is a familiar household unit?
1/4 of a pizza
5 cups
1 egg
250 ml
Which of the following is a fraction of a food?
1/4 of a pizza
5 cups
1 egg
250 ml
If the serving size is 2 eggs and you eat one what do you need to do to all the nutrients in the nutrition facts table?
Leave it alone
Half it
Double it
The serving sizes do not matter
All nutrients on a nutrition facts table are optional.
True
False
The Government has rules in place that must be met before a nutrition claim can be made on a label.
True
False
The Government has rules in place that must be met before a nutrition claim can be made in an advertisement.
True
False
Which of the following is NOT a nutrition claim?
Fat Free
Low in Salt
Reduce the risk of heart disease
Good source of fiber
"Reduced in calories" means:
It has no calories
It has less than 15 % the calories than the original
It has less than 25 % the calories than the original
It has less than 50 % the calories than the original
"Light" can refer to:
The nutritional characteristic of a product (reduced in fat)
Describe the sensory characteristic (light tasting)
The nutritional characteristic of a product (reduced in energy)
Describe the sensory characteristic (light coloured)
All the above
"Sodium free" means there is NO salt in the food item.
True
False
To use the claim "Cholesterol free" an item needs to:
Have less than 2 mg of cholesterol
Low in saturated fat
Low in trans fat
All of the above
The ingredient list must be on the food package.
True
False
All ingredients on a food is listed in:
Any order
Healthiest to unhealthiest
Most to least in weight
Least to most in weight
The proposed changes to the list of ingredients are looking at:
The format of the list
The groupings of like ingredients (such as sugar)
Colour/font
All of the above
Look at the following Nutrition Table to answer the question based on a 500 ml measure.
You are hungry and need a snack. You are trying to choose a lower fat foods. Which yogurt do you choose?
You make yourself 2 tuna sandwiches and end up using the whole can of tuna. How many calories will you get from the tuna?
30 calories
60 calories
90 calories
120 calories
Which of the following snacks has the least amount of sodium for a 50 g portion?
Which of the 2 following items contains the most fiber?
You would love to have a snack with your tea, but you are concerned about the amount of saturated and trans fats that you consume. You pick two different packages of cookies from the cupboard and compare the nutrients in the Nutrition Facts tables. Select the product that is lower in saturated and trans fats.
You are choosing soup at the grocery store. You see two "Chicken and Pasta" soups. Using the list of ingredients, which soup has the most chicken?
INGREDIENTS: Chicken broth, seasoned chicken, carrots, potatoes, tomatoes (calcium chloride, citric acid), water, pasta (enriched wheat flour, egg white), corn, green beans, celery, modified corn starch, red peppers, salt, dehydrated onions, potato starch, chicken flavour, monosodium glutamate, chicken fat, yeast extract, spices, garlic flavour (soybean oil), smoke flavour, parsley flakes, disodium glutamate, disodium inosinate and beta carotene.
INGREDIENTS: Water, chicken broth, carrots, macaroni (enriched wheat flour, egg whites), chicken, celery, chicken fat, salt, potato starch, hydrolysed plant protein (corn, soy, wheat), monosodium glutamate, sugar, yeast extract, onion powder, dehydrated parsley, flavour, spices.
Select the glass of orange juice that is the closest to the specific amount in the Nutrition Facts table. Note that the juice glasses depicted below are all 500 mL.
You see the claim of "Excellent source of Vitamin C" on the package of Tropicana Orange Juice. Will Vitamin C have to be listed on the Nutrition Facts Table?
Yes
No
