PORTAGE LEARNING NUTRITION FINAL EXAM UPDATED
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Four external forces that influence our food choices - ✔✔Sensory
Cognitive
Environmental
Health Status
✔✔External Force: Sensory - ✔✔Flavor, texture, and appearance
✔✔External Force: Cognitive - ✔✔Habits, comfort foods, advertising, social factors,
nutritional value
✔✔External Force: Environmental - ✔✔Economics, lifestyle, cultural/religious beliefs,
environment
✔✔External Force: Health Status - ✔✔physical restrictions related to disease, declining
taste sensitivity due to age or medications, age and gender
✔✔Essential Nutrients - ✔✔nutrients that are vital for sustaining our health
✔✔Macronutrient - ✔✔Needed in large amounts in the body
✔✔Micronutrient - ✔✔Needed in small amounts in the body
✔✔Organic - ✔✔a compound that contains carbon and hydrogen
✔✔Inorganic - ✔✔Any substance that does not contain carbon
✔✔Carbohydrate - ✔✔Primary source of energy!!
Energy source: 4 kcal/gram
Organic
Macronutrient
Supplies energy
✔✔Protein - ✔✔Energy source: 4 kcal/gram
Organic
Macronutrient
regulates body process, provides structure
✔✔Fat - ✔✔Energy source: 9 kcal/gram
Organic
Macronutrient
regulates body process, provides structure
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Four external forces that influence our food choices - ✔✔Sensory
Cognitive
Environmental
Health Status
✔✔External Force: Sensory - ✔✔Flavor, texture, and appearance
✔✔External Force: Cognitive - ✔✔Habits, comfort foods, advertising, social factors,
nutritional value
✔✔External Force: Environmental - ✔✔Economics, lifestyle, cultural/religious beliefs,
environment
✔✔External Force: Health Status - ✔✔physical restrictions related to disease, declining
taste sensitivity due to age or medications, age and gender
✔✔Essential Nutrients - ✔✔nutrients that are vital for sustaining our health
✔✔Macronutrient - ✔✔Needed in large amounts in the body
✔✔Micronutrient - ✔✔Needed in small amounts in the body
✔✔Organic - ✔✔a compound that contains carbon and hydrogen
✔✔Inorganic - ✔✔Any substance that does not contain carbon
✔✔Carbohydrate - ✔✔Primary source of energy!!
Energy source: 4 kcal/gram
Organic
Macronutrient
Supplies energy
✔✔Protein - ✔✔Energy source: 4 kcal/gram
Organic
Macronutrient
regulates body process, provides structure
✔✔Fat - ✔✔Energy source: 9 kcal/gram
Organic
Macronutrient
regulates body process, provides structure