Nutrition Final Exam (cumulative) 250+ Questions and
Answers.
What is the number one reason most people choose to eat certain foods? - Correct
Answer Taste
What are functional foods? - Correct Answer Foods that provide health benefits beyond
their nutrient contributions
True/False: Our bodies can derive all the energy, structural materials and regulating
agents we need from the foods we eat. - Correct Answer True
What are the SIX classes of nutrients? - Correct Answer 1. Water
2. Carbohydrates
3. Lipids
4. Proteins
5. Vitamins
6. Minerals
Which is the simplest of the nutrients? - Correct Answer Minerals
Which of the six classes of nutrients are inorganic? - Correct Answer Water and minerals
Which of the six classes of nutrients are organic? - Correct Answer Carbohydrates, lipids,
proteins, and vitamins
True/False: The body can make all of the nutrients that it needs. - Correct Answer False:
the body does not make enough of some of the nutrients it needs so the rest must be
supplied by the diet.
What are essential nutrients? - Correct Answer Nutrients that must be supplied by the diet.
What nutrients can yield energy? - Correct Answer Carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins
,How much energy do carbohydrates yield? Lipids? Proteins? - Correct Answer
Carbohydrates: 4 k-cal/gram
Lipids: 9 k-cal/gram
Protein: 4 k-cal/gram
What are macronutrients? - Correct Answer Nutrients that the body requires in large
amounts.
Which of the nutrients are considered to be macronutrients? - Correct Answer
Carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins.
What are micronutrients? - Correct Answer Nutrients that the body requires in small
amounts.
Which of the nutrients are considered to be micronutrients? - Correct Answer Vitamins
and minerals.
True/False: Vitamins and minerals yield energy. - Correct Answer False
True/False: Vitamins are destroyed by heat, light and chemical agents. - Correct Answer
True
True/False: Minerals are destroyed by heat, light and chemical agents. - Correct Answer
False: minerals are indestructible because they are inorganic.
What is the set of standards that define how much energy, nutrients, physical health and
other components BEST support health? - Correct Answer Dietary Reference Intakes
(DRI)
In terms of each nutrient, what determines the average amount that appears to be
sufficient for half of the population? - Correct Answer Estimated AVERAGE Requirement
(EAR)
Once a requirement is established, it must be decided what to recommended to individual,
also known as the: - Correct Answer Recommended Dietary Allowance
, True/False: The EAR and the RDA are usually set at the same amounts. - Correct Answer
False: recommendations are usually set GREATER than the EAR to meet the needs of
most healthy people.
What is established when there is not enough evidence to establish an EAR? - Correct
Answer Adequate Intake (AI)
What are tolerable Upper intake Levels (UL)? - Correct Answer The point beyond the
recommended intake at which a nutrients may become toxic.
What represents that average dietary energy intake that will maintain energy balance in a
person who has a healthy weight and level of physical activity? - Correct Answer
Estimated Energy Requirement (EER)
What percent of each of these nutrients is recommended?
Carbohydrates:
Protein:
Lipids/fat: - Correct Answer Carbohydrates: 45-65%
Protein: 10-35%
Lipids/Fat: 20-35%
If a deficiency or excess is significant over time, an individual experiences symptoms of: -
Correct Answer malnutrition
If a person is lacking iron because of their diet, it is known as a _______ deficiency.
Hint: primary or secondary - Correct Answer Primary
If a person is lacking iron because their body does not absorb enough and excretes too
much, it is known as a _________ deficiency.
Hint: primary or secondary - Correct Answer Secondary
True/False: Correlation infers causation. - Correct Answer False.
Answers.
What is the number one reason most people choose to eat certain foods? - Correct
Answer Taste
What are functional foods? - Correct Answer Foods that provide health benefits beyond
their nutrient contributions
True/False: Our bodies can derive all the energy, structural materials and regulating
agents we need from the foods we eat. - Correct Answer True
What are the SIX classes of nutrients? - Correct Answer 1. Water
2. Carbohydrates
3. Lipids
4. Proteins
5. Vitamins
6. Minerals
Which is the simplest of the nutrients? - Correct Answer Minerals
Which of the six classes of nutrients are inorganic? - Correct Answer Water and minerals
Which of the six classes of nutrients are organic? - Correct Answer Carbohydrates, lipids,
proteins, and vitamins
True/False: The body can make all of the nutrients that it needs. - Correct Answer False:
the body does not make enough of some of the nutrients it needs so the rest must be
supplied by the diet.
What are essential nutrients? - Correct Answer Nutrients that must be supplied by the diet.
What nutrients can yield energy? - Correct Answer Carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins
,How much energy do carbohydrates yield? Lipids? Proteins? - Correct Answer
Carbohydrates: 4 k-cal/gram
Lipids: 9 k-cal/gram
Protein: 4 k-cal/gram
What are macronutrients? - Correct Answer Nutrients that the body requires in large
amounts.
Which of the nutrients are considered to be macronutrients? - Correct Answer
Carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins.
What are micronutrients? - Correct Answer Nutrients that the body requires in small
amounts.
Which of the nutrients are considered to be micronutrients? - Correct Answer Vitamins
and minerals.
True/False: Vitamins and minerals yield energy. - Correct Answer False
True/False: Vitamins are destroyed by heat, light and chemical agents. - Correct Answer
True
True/False: Minerals are destroyed by heat, light and chemical agents. - Correct Answer
False: minerals are indestructible because they are inorganic.
What is the set of standards that define how much energy, nutrients, physical health and
other components BEST support health? - Correct Answer Dietary Reference Intakes
(DRI)
In terms of each nutrient, what determines the average amount that appears to be
sufficient for half of the population? - Correct Answer Estimated AVERAGE Requirement
(EAR)
Once a requirement is established, it must be decided what to recommended to individual,
also known as the: - Correct Answer Recommended Dietary Allowance
, True/False: The EAR and the RDA are usually set at the same amounts. - Correct Answer
False: recommendations are usually set GREATER than the EAR to meet the needs of
most healthy people.
What is established when there is not enough evidence to establish an EAR? - Correct
Answer Adequate Intake (AI)
What are tolerable Upper intake Levels (UL)? - Correct Answer The point beyond the
recommended intake at which a nutrients may become toxic.
What represents that average dietary energy intake that will maintain energy balance in a
person who has a healthy weight and level of physical activity? - Correct Answer
Estimated Energy Requirement (EER)
What percent of each of these nutrients is recommended?
Carbohydrates:
Protein:
Lipids/fat: - Correct Answer Carbohydrates: 45-65%
Protein: 10-35%
Lipids/Fat: 20-35%
If a deficiency or excess is significant over time, an individual experiences symptoms of: -
Correct Answer malnutrition
If a person is lacking iron because of their diet, it is known as a _______ deficiency.
Hint: primary or secondary - Correct Answer Primary
If a person is lacking iron because their body does not absorb enough and excretes too
much, it is known as a _________ deficiency.
Hint: primary or secondary - Correct Answer Secondary
True/False: Correlation infers causation. - Correct Answer False.
