Nutrition Quiz

Use these lettered definitions to match up with the terms listed below!

a. components of food that are indispensable to the body's functioning; they provide energy, serve as building material, help maintain or repair body parts, and support growth

b. carbon containing

c. the study of the nutrients in foods and in the body

d. the foods (including beverages) a person eats and drinks

e. nonnutrient compounds in plant-derived foods having biological activity in the body

f. the sum of a culture's habits, customs, beliefs, and preferences concerning food

g. foods associated with particular cultural subgroups within a population

h. the capacity to do work

i. the nutrients the body cannot make for itself (or cannot make fast enough) from other raw materials

j. the nutrients the body can use for energy

k. pills, liquids, or powders that contain purified nutrients or other ingredients

l. medically, any substance that the body can take in and assimilate that will enable it to stay alive and to grow

m. beans, peas, and lentils valued as inexpensive sources of protein, vitamins, minerals and fiber that contribute little or no fat to the diet

n. compounds other than the six nutrients that are present in foods and that have biological activity in the body

o. the complete set of chromosomes that comprises the entirety of an organism's genetic information