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SCSU PCH200 Final Exam Questions with Answers (100% Pass)
What are the classes of nutrients? - ✔️✔️1. Carbohydrates
2. Lipids (fats and oils)
3. Proteins
4. Vitamins
5. Minerals
6. Water
What are macronutrients? - ✔️✔️Nutrients that are needed in relatively large amounts in the
diet
What are the macronutrients? - ✔️✔️Carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins
What are micronutrients? - ✔️✔️Nutrients that are needed in relatively small amounts in the
diet
What are the micronutrients? - ✔️✔️Vitamins and minerals
What are organic nutrients? - ✔️✔️Any compound that contains carbon
What are the organic nutrients? - ✔️✔️Carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and vitamins
What are inorganic nutrients? - ✔️✔️Any substance that does not contain carbon
What are the inorganic nutrients? - ✔️✔️Minerals and water
What are essential nutrients? - ✔️✔️Substances that must be obtained in the diet because the
body either cannot make them or cannot make adequate amounts of them
What are Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs)? - ✔️✔️Recommendations for nutrient intake to
tell us how much of each nutrient we should have in our diets. This includes Estimated
Average Requirement (EAR), Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA), Adequate Intake
(AI), and Tolerable Upper Intake Level (UL)
What is Estimated Average Requirement (EAR)? - ✔️✔️Intake value that meets the estimated
nutrient needs of 50 percent of individuals in specific life-stage and gender groups
What is Estimated Energy Requirement (EER)? - ✔️✔️Intake predicted to maintain energy
balance in a healthy adult of a defined age, gender, weight, height, and level of physical
activity consistent with good health
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What is Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA)? - ✔️✔️Amount that meets the needs of
most people (97-98%) in a life-stage and gender group
What is Adequate Intake (AI)? - ✔️✔️Nutrient intake that appears to sustain a defined
nutritional state or some other indicator of health in a specific population or subgroup
What is Tolerable Upper Intake Level (UL)? - ✔️✔️Maximum levels of daily nutrient intakes
that are unlikely to pose health risks to almost all of the individuals in the group for whom
they are designed
True or False:
The most appropriate use of DRIs is for planning and evaluating diets for large groups of
people? - ✔️✔️True
True or False:
Estimated Energy Requirement (EER) is defined as the energy intake that is estimated to
allow a person to lose 2 - 3 pounds of weight per week? - ✔️✔️False
True or False:
A nutrient level that exceeds the Tolerable Upper Intake Level (UL) is harmful? - ✔️✔️True
True or False:
Recommended Dietary Allowances are the suggested amount of a nutrient that meets the
needs if most people (97-98%) in a particular age group? - ✔️✔️True
What is MyPlate - ✔️✔️The USDA's icon and the primary food group symbol, to accompany
the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2010, that conveys 7 messages from the Dietary
Guidelines for Americans, 2010
What are the 7 message that MyPlate conveys? - ✔️✔️1. Enjoy food but eat less
2. Avoid oversized portions
3. Make half your plate fruits and vegetables
4. Drink water instead of sugary drinks
5. Switch to fat-free or low-fat milk
6. Compare sodium in foods
7. Make at least half your grains whole grains
What are the 5 food groups? - ✔️✔️1. Grains
2. Vegetables
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3. Fruit
4. Protein
5. Dairy
True or False:
MyPlate is designed to convey the key messages from the Dietary Guidelines for Americans,
2010, which include enjoying food but eating less; avoiding oversized portions; making half
your plate fruits and vegetables; drinking water instead of sugary drinks; switching to fat-free
or low-fat (1%) milk; comparing sodium in foods; and making at least half your grains whole
grains? - ✔️✔️True
Included in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2010, intakes of which of the following
foods are generally consumed among the U.S. population lower than recommended and
should be increased?
A. Sodium, whole grains, and complex carbohydrates
B. Vegetables, fruits, whole grains, milk and milk products, and oils
C. Complex carbohydrates, fiber, potassium, and unsaturated fat
D. Vegetables, potassium, simple carbohydrates, and trans fat - ✔️✔️B. Vegetables, fruits,
whole grains, milk and milk products, and oils
The extra calories in foods, such as fat and sugar, that are not accounted for in the MyPlate
recommendations are considered:
A. Nutrient density calories
B. Empty calories
C. Free calories
D. Poor energy calories - ✔️✔️B. Empty calories
What is a food label? - ✔️✔️Labels required by law on virtually all packaged foods to show
ingredients and other basic information; they have 5 requirements
What are the 5 requirements of food labels? - ✔️✔️1. Statement of identify/name of the food
2. Net weight of the food contained inside of the package
3. Name and address of the manufacturer, packer, or distributor
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4. List of ingredients in descending order by weight
5. Nutrition information
What are daily values? - ✔️✔️Set of dietary standards used to compare the amount of a
nutrient in a serving of food to the amount recommended for daily consumption
Percent Daily Values (%DV), as listed on food labels, represent the nutrition need for a
________ calories/day diet.
A. 1,500
B. 2,000
C. 2,200
D. 2,500 - ✔️✔️B. 2,000
Which component of the Nutrition Facts panel can be used as an effective way to compare
the fat, cholesterol, sodium, carbohydrate, or protein content in one serving of the product?
A. % Daily Value
B. Serving size
C. Calories per serving
D. Calorie conversion information - ✔️✔️A. % Daily Value
The Nutrient Facts panel on most packaged foods contains the amounts of nutrients in that
food. It also compares these amounts to the recommended intake values. These comparisons
are reported as:
A. % Daily Value
B. Servings per container
C. Calories per gram
D. Ingredient lists - ✔️✔️A. % Daily Value
What are the amounts of energy in the 3 macronutrients? - ✔️✔️• 1g of carbohydrates = 4
kcalories
• 1g of protein = 4 kcalories
• 1g of fat = 9 kcalories
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