March is Nutrition Month. This year, celebrate by starting each school day with a nutrition question. Display one of the questions below for students and invite them to write their names and answers on a strip of paper and place it in a jar. Pull out a strip randomly, and if it has the correct answer the student gets a healthy prize! Or use these questions are part of a review at the end of the month. Feel free to revise the questions so they are appropriate for your students.
Top off your Nutrition Month celebration with a field trip! Field Trip Factory partners with grocers all over the United States and Canada to offer free nutrition-based experiences. Check out our website to find a location near you. Happy Nutrition Month!
Here are 22 nutrition questions to ask students or create your own.
- What are the five food groups?
- What nutrient is found in whole fruits that is not commonly found in fruit juices?
- What word should you look for on the ingredients list when buying bread?
- Which of the following is a refined grain: popcorn, white rice, quinoa, oatmeal?
- Any food made from milk is part of the Dairy food group: true or false?
- At each meal, about how much of your plate should be fruits and vegetables?
- Peanut butter is a vegetarian choice in which food group?
- What foods are part of both the Protein group and the Vegetable group?
- When choosing meats it is important to make low-fat or high-fat choices?
- Which food is not part of the Protein group: eggs, nuts, fish, bread?
- Eating a slice of bread, a cup or rice, and a bagel makes up a balanced meal: true or false?
- To get all of the nutrients your body needs, you should eat a variety of foods from all of the food groups: true or false?
- Milk, cheese, and yogurt are good foods for which part of your body?
- Which food is not a fruit: bananas, oranges, peas?
- Which is not listed on a Nutrition Facts label for a food item: the amount of sodium, the amount of cholesterol, the amount of you should eat?
- Spinach or kiwi is part of the Vegetables group?
- A vegetarian would eat beans or chicken?
- Cream cheese or yogurt is part of the Dairy group?
- Citrus fruits like oranges and grapefruits are a good source of which vitamin?
- How many of the total grains you eat each day should be whole grains?
- The recommended amount of food someone should eat depends on his or her weight, age, gender, and how active he or she is: true or false?
- Raisins or beets are part of the Fruit group?
Answers:
- Fruits, vegetables, grains, dairy, protein
- Fiber
- Whole
- White rice
- False: items such as sour cream or butter are made from milk but have little or no calcium and therefore are not part of the Dairy group
- Half of the plate
- Protein group
- Beans and peas
- Low-fat choices
- Bread
- False: a balanced meal is made up of foods from many different food groups, not just from the Grain group
- True
- Bones and teeth: Dairy foods are rich in calcium which support strong bones and teeth
- Peas
- The amount you should eat is not on the Nutrition Facts label.
- Spinach
- Beans
- Yogurt: cream cheese is made from cheese but it is not part of the Dairy group because it has little or no calcium
- Vitamin C
- Half of the total grains you eat should be whole grains
- True
- Raisins