FSHN 167 Exam #3 – Iowa State University – Food Science and Human Nutrition – Review
Notes and Practice Material
A highly digestible complex carbohydrate - ✔✔Starch
Storage form of carbohydrate in your liver and muscle - ✔✔Glycogen
This complex carbohydrate cannot be digested - ✔✔Fiber
The 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans encourage Americans to meet their fiber
needs through consuming - ✔✔Fruits, veggies, whole grains
Which ingredient in Activia Fiber Probiotic Yogurt is a source of functional fiber? - ✔✔Inulin
An advantage of fortifying Motts Fruit Flavored Snacks with soluble corn fiber - ✔✔It dissolves
in water, it does not change taste, it does not change texture
The apple slives in McDonald's Happy Meals are peeled. Peeling removes most of what kind of
fiber? - ✔✔Insoluble
At Thanksgiving dinner, a cup of mashed sweet potatoes packs about 5 grams of what kind of
fiber? - ✔✔Dietary
The wheat bran cereal is high in what kind of fiber? - ✔✔Insoluble
A health benefit from consuming the fiber in wheat bran - ✔✔Decreases transit time
, A health benefit from consuming the soluble fiber in oats - ✔✔Decreases cholesterol
absorption, slows glucose absorption, slows stomach emptying
Recommended fiber intakes (Adequate Intake values) are based on strong evidence that fiber -
✔✔Benefits heart health
One of four "nutrients of concern" identified by the 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans
- ✔✔Dietary fiber
A collection of risk factors that places a person at higher risk of heart disease and type 2
diabetes - ✔✔Metabolic syndrome
In teens, lower fiber intakes are linked to - ✔✔Inflammation, metabolic syndrome, visceral
(belly) fat
Researchers are concerned that exposure to low calorie sweeteners could - ✔✔Change the
microbes that inhabit the large intestine leading to glucose intolerance, confuse appetite control
mechanisms, lead to increased sugar intakes by enhancing the preference for sweet taste
When antibiotics were used to eliminate gut microbes in mice fed artificial sweeteners -
✔✔Glucose intolerance returned to normal
Starch digestion begins in you - ✔✔Mouth
Your _______ secretes amylase needed to digest starch - ✔✔Pancreas
A disaccharide sugar that is a product of starch digestion - ✔✔Maltose
Notes and Practice Material
A highly digestible complex carbohydrate - ✔✔Starch
Storage form of carbohydrate in your liver and muscle - ✔✔Glycogen
This complex carbohydrate cannot be digested - ✔✔Fiber
The 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans encourage Americans to meet their fiber
needs through consuming - ✔✔Fruits, veggies, whole grains
Which ingredient in Activia Fiber Probiotic Yogurt is a source of functional fiber? - ✔✔Inulin
An advantage of fortifying Motts Fruit Flavored Snacks with soluble corn fiber - ✔✔It dissolves
in water, it does not change taste, it does not change texture
The apple slives in McDonald's Happy Meals are peeled. Peeling removes most of what kind of
fiber? - ✔✔Insoluble
At Thanksgiving dinner, a cup of mashed sweet potatoes packs about 5 grams of what kind of
fiber? - ✔✔Dietary
The wheat bran cereal is high in what kind of fiber? - ✔✔Insoluble
A health benefit from consuming the fiber in wheat bran - ✔✔Decreases transit time
, A health benefit from consuming the soluble fiber in oats - ✔✔Decreases cholesterol
absorption, slows glucose absorption, slows stomach emptying
Recommended fiber intakes (Adequate Intake values) are based on strong evidence that fiber -
✔✔Benefits heart health
One of four "nutrients of concern" identified by the 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans
- ✔✔Dietary fiber
A collection of risk factors that places a person at higher risk of heart disease and type 2
diabetes - ✔✔Metabolic syndrome
In teens, lower fiber intakes are linked to - ✔✔Inflammation, metabolic syndrome, visceral
(belly) fat
Researchers are concerned that exposure to low calorie sweeteners could - ✔✔Change the
microbes that inhabit the large intestine leading to glucose intolerance, confuse appetite control
mechanisms, lead to increased sugar intakes by enhancing the preference for sweet taste
When antibiotics were used to eliminate gut microbes in mice fed artificial sweeteners -
✔✔Glucose intolerance returned to normal
Starch digestion begins in you - ✔✔Mouth
Your _______ secretes amylase needed to digest starch - ✔✔Pancreas
A disaccharide sugar that is a product of starch digestion - ✔✔Maltose
