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What is a balanced diet?

Lesson Review
PART A Identify the food group in which each food belongs. Write the name of
the correct food group in the space provided.

PART B Complete the following.

1. What is malnutrition? ______________________________________________________________________
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2. What is a balanced diet? ____________________________________________________________________

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3. List the names of the six food groups. ________________________________________________________

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4. What are food labels and how do you read them? ______________________________________________
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Skill Challenge
Skills: classifying, applying concepts
Write the names of the six food groups on a sheet of paper. Place each food listed in the
box below into its correct food group by writing its name beneath the proper heading.

FOOD LIST
tuna fish peas walnuts yogurt rice lettuce pear
Swiss cheese banana spaghetti chicken broccoli milk apple
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Answer Key
What is a balanced diet?
Lesson Review
PART A
1. bread, cereals, rice, and pasta group 2. meat,
poultry, fish, dry beans, eggs, and nuts group
3. vegetable group 4. meat, poultry, fish, dry beans,
eggs, and nuts group 5. bread, cereals, rice, and
pasta group 6. fruit group 7. milk, yogurt, and
cheese group 8. milk, yogurt, and cheese group
PART B
1. a disorder caused by an unbalanced diet and lack
of nutrients 2. a diet that contains the right
amounts of nutrients, such as eating the
recommended number of servings from each food
group 3. bread, cereals, rice, and pasta group; fruit
group; vegetable group; meat, poultry, fish, dry
beans, eggs, and nuts group; milk, yogurt, and
cheese group; fats, oils, and sweets group 4. Food
labels list the nutritional information of the food and
the food’s ingredients. It lists the serving size first,
and then the amount of each nutrient you receive
with each serving size, as well as the Calories.
Skill Challenge
bread, cereals, rice, and pasta group—spaghetti, rice;
meat, poultry, fish, dry beans, eggs, and nuts
group—tuna fish, walnuts, chicken; milk, yogurt,
and cheese group—Swiss cheese, yogurt, milk; fruit
group—banana, pear, apple; vegetable group—peas,
broccoli, lettuce

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