Nutrition Part 1 Quiz 1

Vitamins contain _______ kcal/g.

0

A 19-year-old boy avoids rice pudding because once when he was a child, he got sick after eating it. This practice of avoiding a certain food because you think it will make you sick is best described as which sensory influence?

Comfort/discomfort foods

Which one of the following influences on food choices is most closely related to knowledge, beliefs, customs, and habits?

Cultural

Among the 10 leading causes of death in the United States, these two conditions account for almost half of all deaths.

Heart disease and cancer

The starches and sugars found in grains, vegetables, legumes, and fruits are

carbohydrates.

A dislike for anything new or unfamiliar is called

neophobia

Except for ______, all of the following are similar in how they are absorbed and transported in the body.

vitamin B6

How many grams of carbohydrate are in a product that contains 160 calories from carbohydrates?

40

Americans spend almost _______ percent of their food budget on foods prepared away from home.

50

Two hundred seventy-five grams of carbohydrate provides what percent of calories from carbohydrate in a 2,000 kcal diet?

55

A meal that contains 4 grams of fat, 3 grams of protein, and 3 grams of carbohydrate will provide ______ calories.

60

Fat contains _______ kilocalories per gram.

9

General functions of the six classes of nutrients include all of the following except

adding flavor to food.

If you eat a diet with 2,000 kilocalories and 45 percent of those calories come from protein, about how many grams of protein did you eat?

225

How many kilocalories are in 7 grams of protein?

28

A study of the relationship between skipping breakfast and its link to overweight kids is an example of which type of study?

An epidemiological

Which nutrient provides the starting material for making many of the hormones in our bodies?

Lipids

Which one of the following nutrients contains the most calories per gram?

Lipids

Which of the following best describes components of a double-blind study?

When neither the subjects nor the researchers are aware of the subjects' group assignments

Carbohydrates, proteins, and lipids are considered

macronutrients