WorksheetsQuiz Chapter 5 Nutrition and Your Health
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 14mins
______ is the physical need for food.
Hunger
Appetite
Cravings
Appetite is a desire, rather than a need, to eat.
False
True
What are Nutrients, and what do they do for the body?
Substances in food that your body needs to grow.
Substances in food that your body needs to repair itself.
Nutrients slow you down and make you sick.
Nutrients supply you with energy.
The process by which the body takes in food and uses it.
(a)
The starches and sugars found in foods.
Proteins
Carbohydrates
Fats
What is a simple sugar and the body’s chief fuel.
Glycogen
Glucose
Amino acids
Glycogen is a starch-like substance.
True
False
What are Proteins?
Starch-like substances.
Simple sugars and the body’s chief fuel.
Nutrients that help and maintain body tissues.
Define Amino acids.
Substances that make up body proteins.
The starches and sugars found in foods.
Starch-like substances.
Lipid is a fatty substance that does not dissolve in water.
False
True
Define Linoleic acid.
Essential fatty acid not made in the body but which is essential for growth and healthy skin.
A fatlike substance produced in the liver of all animals found only in foods of animal origin.
Substances that make up body proteins.
___________ a fatlike substance produced in the liver of all animals found only in foods of animal origin.
Linoleic acid
Lipid
Cholesterol
Compounds that help regulate many vital body processes, including digestion, absorption, and metabolism of other nutrients.
(a)
Inorganic substances that the body cannot manufacture, but are vital in many body processes.
(a)
What is Recommended Dietary Allowances(RDA)?
The amounts of nutrients that will prevent deficiencies and excesses inmost healthy people.
A strategy of recognizing the relative cost of a product based on the cost of a standard unit such as an ounce or gram.
What are Food additives?
The addition of nutrients that are not naturally present.
Food in which nutrients that were lost have been added back.
Substances added to food intentionally to produce a desired effect.
Enriched food is a food in which nutrients that were lost have been added back.
True
False
Define Fortification.
A strategy of recognizing the relative cost of a product based on the cost of a standard unit such as an ounce or gram.
Is the addition of nutrients that are not naturally present.
What is a strategy of recognizing the relative cost of a product based on the cost of a standard unit such as an ounce or gram.
Unit pricing
Dynamic pricing
Pricing strategy
Why is good nutrition essential for your health?
