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Chapter: Chapter 01 - Quiz
Multiple Choice
1. The sale of gluten-free products in the United States is rising each year due to the increased diagnosis
of celiac disease and the belief that eliminating gluten from the diet will treat other conditions. This
practice is best described as an example of which sensory influence or personal preference?
A) Food and diet trends
B) Economics
C) Religion
D) Availability
Ans: A
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: Why Do We Eat the Way We Do?
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Food Choices: Nutrients and Nourishment
2. A 19-year-old boy avoids rice pudding because once when he was a child, he got sick after eating it.
This practice of avoiding a certain food because you think it will make you sick is best described as which
sensory influence?
A) Nutrition and health beliefs
B) Social factors
C) Food and diet trends
D) Comfort/discomfort foods
Ans: D
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: Why Do We Eat the Way We Do?
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Food Choices: Nutrients and Nourishment
3. As people from other cultures immigrate to new lands, they will adopt new behaviors consistent with
their new homes; however, their _______ are the last to change.
A) comfort foods
B) food habits
C) expectations about food
D) taste sensitivities
Chapter 1 Assessment Quiz
,Ans: B
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: Why Do We Eat the Way We Do?
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Food Choices: Nutrients and Nourishment
4. Except for _______, all of the following are organic compounds that regulate body processes and
contribute to cell and body structure.
A) vitamins
B) minerals
C) lipids
D) proteins
Ans: B
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: Introducing the Nutrients
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Food Choices: Nutrients and Nourishment
5. How many kilocalories are in 7 grams of protein?
A) 28
B) 49
C) 63
D) 77
Ans: A
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: Introducing the Nutrients
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Food Choices: Nutrients and Nourishment
6. Which nutrient provides the starting material for making many of the hormones in our bodies?
A) Vitamins
B) Minerals
C) Lipids
D) Proteins
Ans: C
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Introducing the Nutrients
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Food Choices: Nutrients and Nourishment
7. Two hundred seventy-five grams of carbohydrate provides what percent of calories from carbohydrate in a
2,000 kcal diet?
A) 25
B) 40
C) 55
D) 60
Ans: C
Complexity: Difficult
Chapter 1 Assessment Quiz
,Ahead: Introducing the Nutrients
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Food Choices: Nutrients and Nourishment
8. If a food label identifies the total number of kilocalories in a bowl of cereal as 140 and the carbohydrate
kilocalories as 100, what is the approximate percentage of energy supplied by carbohydrates?
A) 40
B) 50
C) 60
D) 70
Ans: D
Complexity: Difficult
Ahead: Introducing the Nutrients
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Food Choices: Nutrients and Nourishment
9. If you eat a diet with 2,000 kilocalories and 45 percent of those calories come from protein, about how
many grams of protein did you eat?
A) 100
B) 128
C) 200
D) 225
Ans: D
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: Introducing the Nutrients
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Food Choices: Nutrients and Nourishment
10. Which of the following best describes components of a double-blind study?
A) When members of the control group know which group they are in but members of the experimental
group do not
B) When the researchers do not know which group the subjects are in but the subjects of both the control
and experimental group know which group they are in
C) When neither the subjects nor the researchers are aware of the subjects’ group assignments
D) When members of the experimental group and the researchers know which study group all of the
subjects are in
Ans: C
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: Applying the Scientific Process to Nutrition
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Food Choices: Nutrients and Nourishment
11. A study of the relationship between skipping breakfast and its link to overweight kids is an example of
which type of study?
A) A clinical trial
B) A nominal
C) An epidemiological
D) A controlled case study
Chapter 1 Assessment Quiz
,Ans: C
Complexity: Difficult
Ahead: Applying the Scientific Process to Nutrition
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Food Choices: Nutrients and Nourishment
12. A meal that contains 4 grams of fat, 3 grams of protein, and 3 grams of carbohydrate will provide
______ calories.
A) 50
B) 60
C) 70
D) 80
Ans: B
Complexity: Difficult
Ahead: Introducing the Nutrients
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Food Choices: Nutrients and Nourishment
13. The __________ model shows how individual factors, environmental settings, and various sections of
influence overlap to form health decisions for an individual.
A) health belief
B) transtheoretical
C) community action
D) social-ecological
Ans: D
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: Why Do We Eat the Way We Do?
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Food Choices: Nutrients and Nourishment
14. Except for ______, all of the following are similar in how they are absorbed and transported in the
body.
A) vitamin B6
B) vitamin D
C) vitamin A
D) vitamin K
Ans: A
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: Introducing the Nutrients
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Food Choices: Nutrients and Nourishment
15. A patient is on a 2,000 kcal diet but is meeting only 80 percent of his total energy need. Which of the
following food items could provide adequate calories for the remaining 20 percent?
A) Food item A (20 grams of fat, 20 grams of carbohydrate, and 35 grams of protein)
B) Food item B (10 grams of fat, 20 grams of carbohydrate, and 35 grams of protein)
C) Food item C (20 grams of fat, 10 grams of carbohydrate, and 35 grams of protein)
D) Food item D (20 grams of fat, 20 grams of carbohydrate, and 25 grams of protein)
Chapter 1 Assessment Quiz
,Ans: A
Complexity: Difficult
Ahead: Introducing the Nutrients
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Food Choices: Nutrients and Nourishment
True/False
1. True or False? The six classes of nutrients in food include carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, vitamins,
minerals, and water.
Ans: True
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Introducing the Nutrients
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Food Choices: Nutrients and Nourishment
2. True or False? Carbohydrate is considered the most essential nutrient.
Ans: False
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Introducing the Nutrients
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Food Choices: Nutrients and Nourishment
3. True or False? Compared to our lifestyle factors such as smoking and exercise, our food choices are
more likely to affect our risk for developing chronic diseases such as heart disease or cancer.
Ans: True
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Introduction to Nutrients
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Food Choices: Nutrients and Nourishment
4. True or False? In nutrition research, a supposition or proposed explanation made on the basis of
limited evidence and used as a starting point for further investigation is called the observation.
Ans: False
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Applying the Scientific Process to Nutrition
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Food Choices: Nutrients and Nourishment
5. True or False? An example of a case control study is one in which a group of individuals who have a
condition, such as heart disease, are compared with a similar group of people who do not have the same
condition.
Ans: True
Complexity: Moderate
Chapter 1 Assessment Quiz
,Ahead: Applying the Scientific Process to Nutrition
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Food Choices: Nutrients and Nourishment
6. True or False? An example of a correlation study is when a set of people is studied in an effort to
evaluate the effect of an event, substance, or technique, such as if vitamin C helps to improve a certain
skin condition.
Ans: False
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: Applying the Scientific Process to Nutrition
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Food Choices: Nutrients and Nourishment
7. True or False? An example of placebo effect is the expectation that a certain treatment will be effective
can be almost as effective as the treatment itself.
Ans: True
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: Applying the Scientific Process to Nutrition
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Food Choices: Nutrients and Nourishment
8. True or False? Professional journals in print and on the Internet are examples of primary sources of
scientific research information.
Ans: True
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: From Research Study to Headline
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Food Choices: Nutrients and Nourishment
9. True or False? Usually, results from animal studies can be applied directly to humans.
Ans: False
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Applying the Scientific Process to Nutrition
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Food Choices: Nutrients and Nourishment
Short Answer
1. There are a total of _______ calories available from a serving of food that contains 3 grams of fat, 14
grams of carbohydrate, and 4 grams of protein.
Ans: 99
Complexity: Difficult
Ahead: Introducing the Nutrients
Subject: Chapter 1
Chapter 1 Assessment Quiz
,Title: Food Choices: Nutrients and Nourishment
2. _______ is the word for plant chemicals found in food that are not nutrients but are important health
functions.
Ans: Phytochemicals
Complexity: Easy
Ahead:
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Food Choices: Nutrients and Nourishment
Chapter 1 Assessment Quiz
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Chapter: Chapter 02 - Quiz
Multiple Choice
1. The healthfulness of a food is best described as its:
A) calorie content.
B) vitamin value.
C) nutrient value.
D) nutrient density.
Ans: D
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Linking Nutrients, Foods, and Health
Subject: Chapter 2
Title: Nutrition Guidelines: Tools for a Healthful Diet
2. A claim that describes the potential effect of a food, food component, or a dietary supplement
is called a:
A) health claim.
B) structure/function claim.
C) nutrient content claim.
D) scientific statement.
Ans: B
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: Food Labels
Subject: Chapter 2
Title: Nutrition Guidelines: Tools for a Healthful Diet
3. Which of the following is the least nutrient-dense?
A) Plain baked sweet potato
B) Baked sweet potato with butter
C) Sweet potato fries
D) All of the above are equal in nutrient density.
Ans: C
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: Linking Nutrients, Foods, and Health
Subject: Chapter 2
Chapter 2 Assessment Quiz
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editions.
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⚠️Note on Answer Keys: If the answer key is not included within the chapter
questions, you will find the complete answers and solutions at the end of each
chapter.
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📚 Complete & organized chapter-by-chapter – no missing content, no guessing.
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Chapter: Chapter 01 - Quiz
Multiple Choice
1. The sale of gluten-free products in the United States is rising each year due to the increased diagnosis
of celiac disease and the belief that eliminating gluten from the diet will treat other conditions. This
practice is best described as an example of which sensory influence or personal preference?
A) Food and diet trends
B) Economics
C) Religion
D) Availability
Ans: A
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: Why Do We Eat the Way We Do?
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Food Choices: Nutrients and Nourishment
2. A 19-year-old boy avoids rice pudding because once when he was a child, he got sick after eating it.
This practice of avoiding a certain food because you think it will make you sick is best described as which
sensory influence?
A) Nutrition and health beliefs
B) Social factors
C) Food and diet trends
D) Comfort/discomfort foods
Ans: D
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: Why Do We Eat the Way We Do?
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Food Choices: Nutrients and Nourishment
3. As people from other cultures immigrate to new lands, they will adopt new behaviors consistent with
their new homes; however, their _______ are the last to change.
A) comfort foods
B) food habits
C) expectations about food
D) taste sensitivities
Chapter 1 Assessment Quiz
,Ans: B
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: Why Do We Eat the Way We Do?
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Food Choices: Nutrients and Nourishment
4. Except for _______, all of the following are organic compounds that regulate body processes and
contribute to cell and body structure.
A) vitamins
B) minerals
C) lipids
D) proteins
Ans: B
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: Introducing the Nutrients
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Food Choices: Nutrients and Nourishment
5. How many kilocalories are in 7 grams of protein?
A) 28
B) 49
C) 63
D) 77
Ans: A
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: Introducing the Nutrients
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Food Choices: Nutrients and Nourishment
6. Which nutrient provides the starting material for making many of the hormones in our bodies?
A) Vitamins
B) Minerals
C) Lipids
D) Proteins
Ans: C
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Introducing the Nutrients
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Food Choices: Nutrients and Nourishment
7. Two hundred seventy-five grams of carbohydrate provides what percent of calories from carbohydrate in a
2,000 kcal diet?
A) 25
B) 40
C) 55
D) 60
Ans: C
Complexity: Difficult
Chapter 1 Assessment Quiz
,Ahead: Introducing the Nutrients
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Food Choices: Nutrients and Nourishment
8. If a food label identifies the total number of kilocalories in a bowl of cereal as 140 and the carbohydrate
kilocalories as 100, what is the approximate percentage of energy supplied by carbohydrates?
A) 40
B) 50
C) 60
D) 70
Ans: D
Complexity: Difficult
Ahead: Introducing the Nutrients
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Food Choices: Nutrients and Nourishment
9. If you eat a diet with 2,000 kilocalories and 45 percent of those calories come from protein, about how
many grams of protein did you eat?
A) 100
B) 128
C) 200
D) 225
Ans: D
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: Introducing the Nutrients
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Food Choices: Nutrients and Nourishment
10. Which of the following best describes components of a double-blind study?
A) When members of the control group know which group they are in but members of the experimental
group do not
B) When the researchers do not know which group the subjects are in but the subjects of both the control
and experimental group know which group they are in
C) When neither the subjects nor the researchers are aware of the subjects’ group assignments
D) When members of the experimental group and the researchers know which study group all of the
subjects are in
Ans: C
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: Applying the Scientific Process to Nutrition
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Food Choices: Nutrients and Nourishment
11. A study of the relationship between skipping breakfast and its link to overweight kids is an example of
which type of study?
A) A clinical trial
B) A nominal
C) An epidemiological
D) A controlled case study
Chapter 1 Assessment Quiz
,Ans: C
Complexity: Difficult
Ahead: Applying the Scientific Process to Nutrition
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Food Choices: Nutrients and Nourishment
12. A meal that contains 4 grams of fat, 3 grams of protein, and 3 grams of carbohydrate will provide
______ calories.
A) 50
B) 60
C) 70
D) 80
Ans: B
Complexity: Difficult
Ahead: Introducing the Nutrients
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Food Choices: Nutrients and Nourishment
13. The __________ model shows how individual factors, environmental settings, and various sections of
influence overlap to form health decisions for an individual.
A) health belief
B) transtheoretical
C) community action
D) social-ecological
Ans: D
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: Why Do We Eat the Way We Do?
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Food Choices: Nutrients and Nourishment
14. Except for ______, all of the following are similar in how they are absorbed and transported in the
body.
A) vitamin B6
B) vitamin D
C) vitamin A
D) vitamin K
Ans: A
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: Introducing the Nutrients
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Food Choices: Nutrients and Nourishment
15. A patient is on a 2,000 kcal diet but is meeting only 80 percent of his total energy need. Which of the
following food items could provide adequate calories for the remaining 20 percent?
A) Food item A (20 grams of fat, 20 grams of carbohydrate, and 35 grams of protein)
B) Food item B (10 grams of fat, 20 grams of carbohydrate, and 35 grams of protein)
C) Food item C (20 grams of fat, 10 grams of carbohydrate, and 35 grams of protein)
D) Food item D (20 grams of fat, 20 grams of carbohydrate, and 25 grams of protein)
Chapter 1 Assessment Quiz
,Ans: A
Complexity: Difficult
Ahead: Introducing the Nutrients
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Food Choices: Nutrients and Nourishment
True/False
1. True or False? The six classes of nutrients in food include carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, vitamins,
minerals, and water.
Ans: True
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Introducing the Nutrients
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Food Choices: Nutrients and Nourishment
2. True or False? Carbohydrate is considered the most essential nutrient.
Ans: False
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Introducing the Nutrients
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Food Choices: Nutrients and Nourishment
3. True or False? Compared to our lifestyle factors such as smoking and exercise, our food choices are
more likely to affect our risk for developing chronic diseases such as heart disease or cancer.
Ans: True
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Introduction to Nutrients
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Food Choices: Nutrients and Nourishment
4. True or False? In nutrition research, a supposition or proposed explanation made on the basis of
limited evidence and used as a starting point for further investigation is called the observation.
Ans: False
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Applying the Scientific Process to Nutrition
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Food Choices: Nutrients and Nourishment
5. True or False? An example of a case control study is one in which a group of individuals who have a
condition, such as heart disease, are compared with a similar group of people who do not have the same
condition.
Ans: True
Complexity: Moderate
Chapter 1 Assessment Quiz
,Ahead: Applying the Scientific Process to Nutrition
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Food Choices: Nutrients and Nourishment
6. True or False? An example of a correlation study is when a set of people is studied in an effort to
evaluate the effect of an event, substance, or technique, such as if vitamin C helps to improve a certain
skin condition.
Ans: False
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: Applying the Scientific Process to Nutrition
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Food Choices: Nutrients and Nourishment
7. True or False? An example of placebo effect is the expectation that a certain treatment will be effective
can be almost as effective as the treatment itself.
Ans: True
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: Applying the Scientific Process to Nutrition
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Food Choices: Nutrients and Nourishment
8. True or False? Professional journals in print and on the Internet are examples of primary sources of
scientific research information.
Ans: True
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: From Research Study to Headline
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Food Choices: Nutrients and Nourishment
9. True or False? Usually, results from animal studies can be applied directly to humans.
Ans: False
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Applying the Scientific Process to Nutrition
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Food Choices: Nutrients and Nourishment
Short Answer
1. There are a total of _______ calories available from a serving of food that contains 3 grams of fat, 14
grams of carbohydrate, and 4 grams of protein.
Ans: 99
Complexity: Difficult
Ahead: Introducing the Nutrients
Subject: Chapter 1
Chapter 1 Assessment Quiz
,Title: Food Choices: Nutrients and Nourishment
2. _______ is the word for plant chemicals found in food that are not nutrients but are important health
functions.
Ans: Phytochemicals
Complexity: Easy
Ahead:
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Food Choices: Nutrients and Nourishment
Chapter 1 Assessment Quiz
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Chapter: Chapter 02 - Quiz
Multiple Choice
1. The healthfulness of a food is best described as its:
A) calorie content.
B) vitamin value.
C) nutrient value.
D) nutrient density.
Ans: D
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Linking Nutrients, Foods, and Health
Subject: Chapter 2
Title: Nutrition Guidelines: Tools for a Healthful Diet
2. A claim that describes the potential effect of a food, food component, or a dietary supplement
is called a:
A) health claim.
B) structure/function claim.
C) nutrient content claim.
D) scientific statement.
Ans: B
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: Food Labels
Subject: Chapter 2
Title: Nutrition Guidelines: Tools for a Healthful Diet
3. Which of the following is the least nutrient-dense?
A) Plain baked sweet potato
B) Baked sweet potato with butter
C) Sweet potato fries
D) All of the above are equal in nutrient density.
Ans: C
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: Linking Nutrients, Foods, and Health
Subject: Chapter 2
Chapter 2 Assessment Quiz
