NUTRITION AND YOU COMPREHENSIVE
EXAM SCRIPT VERIFIED QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS GRADED APLUS
●● The science that studies how the nutrients and compounds in foods
nourish you, help you function, and affect your health.
Answer: Nutrition.
●● Identify the six categories of nutrients found in food.
Answer: Carbohydrates, fats, protein, vitamins, minerals, water.
●● What do Carbohydrates provide?
Answer: Energy.
●● What provides energy, growth, maintenance support or structure, and
regulate body processes.?
Answer: Proteins and fats.
●● What provides growth, maintenance support or structure, and
regulate body processes?
Answer: Vitamins, minerals, and water
, ●● Any substance or compound that the body can take in, digest/absorb
(assimilate) that will enable the body to live and grow is?
Answer: Food
●● Substances/compounds which the body cannot make at all or cannot
make fast enough to meet the body's need are called?
Answer: Essential nutrients.
●● Plant-produced chemical compounds, which give fruits and
vegetables their colors, have numerous beneficial functions in the human
body are called _______.
Answer: phytochemicals
●● Any foods that have been subject to milling, refining, alteration of
texture, addition of additives, cooking, freezing, drying, etc. are _____
_____.
Answer: processed foods.
●● Foods that are used daily or very frequently during the week are
______ foods.
Answer: staple
●● Pills, liquids, powders that contain purified nutrients and/or other
ingredients are ______.
EXAM SCRIPT VERIFIED QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS GRADED APLUS
●● The science that studies how the nutrients and compounds in foods
nourish you, help you function, and affect your health.
Answer: Nutrition.
●● Identify the six categories of nutrients found in food.
Answer: Carbohydrates, fats, protein, vitamins, minerals, water.
●● What do Carbohydrates provide?
Answer: Energy.
●● What provides energy, growth, maintenance support or structure, and
regulate body processes.?
Answer: Proteins and fats.
●● What provides growth, maintenance support or structure, and
regulate body processes?
Answer: Vitamins, minerals, and water
, ●● Any substance or compound that the body can take in, digest/absorb
(assimilate) that will enable the body to live and grow is?
Answer: Food
●● Substances/compounds which the body cannot make at all or cannot
make fast enough to meet the body's need are called?
Answer: Essential nutrients.
●● Plant-produced chemical compounds, which give fruits and
vegetables their colors, have numerous beneficial functions in the human
body are called _______.
Answer: phytochemicals
●● Any foods that have been subject to milling, refining, alteration of
texture, addition of additives, cooking, freezing, drying, etc. are _____
_____.
Answer: processed foods.
●● Foods that are used daily or very frequently during the week are
______ foods.
Answer: staple
●● Pills, liquids, powders that contain purified nutrients and/or other
ingredients are ______.
