FDNTR 219 Ch. 1-4 Exam Questions with
Answers (100% Correct Answers)
What are the reasons people make food choices? Know examples from each
category. Answer: Personal Preference, Habit, Ethnic Heritage or Regional
Cuisine. Social Interactions. Availability, convenience, and economy.
What are the 6 classes of nutrients?` Answer: Carbohydrate, Protein, Lipid,
Vitamins, Minerals, Water
What is a phytochemical? Answer: Non-nutrient compounds found in plants
derived foods that have biological activity in the body
What nutrient is present in the highest amount in most foods? Answer: Water
What is an essential nutrient? Answer: Nutrient that the body doesn't make (or
makes an insufficient amounts). These must be supplied by food
Know which nutrients are the energy yielding nutrients (ie, provide kcalories)
Answer: Carbs, Proteins, and Lipids.
Which nutrients are macronutrients? Answer: Carbs, Proteins, and Lipids.
Which nutrients are micronutrients? Answer: Vitamins, and minerals.
How many calories are provided by protein, carbohydrate, fat and alcohol?
Answer: Protein= 4 kcal/g
Carbohydrate= 4 kcal/g
Fat=9 kcal/g
Alcohol= 7 kcal/g
How do you calculate the total kcalories of a food item? Answer: Total grams
of nutrient multiplied by the kcal/g of nutrient will provide total k calories
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What are the basic characteristics of vitamins? Answer: Organic, not energy-
yielding, essential, water-soluble, fat-soluble, vulnerable to destruction. (There
are 13 different vitamins, each with their own specific role)
What are the basic characteristics of minerals? Answer: Inorganic, NOT energy
yielding, essential, indestructible (can be cooked.)
Control group is... Answer: The group in an experiment or study that does not
receive treatment to serve as a comparison to the treated group.
Randomized means... Answer: When subjects are chosen in a random manner.
Sample Size means... Answer: The number of people in a population to be
studied.
Placebo means... Answer: A substance that has no pharmacological effect but
given merely to satisfy a patient who supposes it to be medicine.
Double-blind study means... Answer: An experimental procedure in which
neither the subjects of the experiment nor the persons administering the
experiment know the critical aspects of the experiment.
What are the 4 sections of the Dietary Reference Intakes and what they
represent (DRI's) Answer: Estimated Average Requirements (EAR): Average
amount of a nutrient that is sufficient for half the population.
Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDAs): Most used! Meets the needs of
most healthy people 98% of the population.
Adequate Intakes (AI): When insufficient evidence is present to determine
RDA.
Answers (100% Correct Answers)
What are the reasons people make food choices? Know examples from each
category. Answer: Personal Preference, Habit, Ethnic Heritage or Regional
Cuisine. Social Interactions. Availability, convenience, and economy.
What are the 6 classes of nutrients?` Answer: Carbohydrate, Protein, Lipid,
Vitamins, Minerals, Water
What is a phytochemical? Answer: Non-nutrient compounds found in plants
derived foods that have biological activity in the body
What nutrient is present in the highest amount in most foods? Answer: Water
What is an essential nutrient? Answer: Nutrient that the body doesn't make (or
makes an insufficient amounts). These must be supplied by food
Know which nutrients are the energy yielding nutrients (ie, provide kcalories)
Answer: Carbs, Proteins, and Lipids.
Which nutrients are macronutrients? Answer: Carbs, Proteins, and Lipids.
Which nutrients are micronutrients? Answer: Vitamins, and minerals.
How many calories are provided by protein, carbohydrate, fat and alcohol?
Answer: Protein= 4 kcal/g
Carbohydrate= 4 kcal/g
Fat=9 kcal/g
Alcohol= 7 kcal/g
How do you calculate the total kcalories of a food item? Answer: Total grams
of nutrient multiplied by the kcal/g of nutrient will provide total k calories
, 2
What are the basic characteristics of vitamins? Answer: Organic, not energy-
yielding, essential, water-soluble, fat-soluble, vulnerable to destruction. (There
are 13 different vitamins, each with their own specific role)
What are the basic characteristics of minerals? Answer: Inorganic, NOT energy
yielding, essential, indestructible (can be cooked.)
Control group is... Answer: The group in an experiment or study that does not
receive treatment to serve as a comparison to the treated group.
Randomized means... Answer: When subjects are chosen in a random manner.
Sample Size means... Answer: The number of people in a population to be
studied.
Placebo means... Answer: A substance that has no pharmacological effect but
given merely to satisfy a patient who supposes it to be medicine.
Double-blind study means... Answer: An experimental procedure in which
neither the subjects of the experiment nor the persons administering the
experiment know the critical aspects of the experiment.
What are the 4 sections of the Dietary Reference Intakes and what they
represent (DRI's) Answer: Estimated Average Requirements (EAR): Average
amount of a nutrient that is sufficient for half the population.
Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDAs): Most used! Meets the needs of
most healthy people 98% of the population.
Adequate Intakes (AI): When insufficient evidence is present to determine
RDA.
