Nutrition Facts of the Day by Category

 August Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

SUMMER VACATION SUMMER VACATION SUMMER VACATION SUMMER VACATION SUMMER VACATION

. SUMMER VACATION SUMMER VACATION SUMMER VACATION SUMMER VACATION SUMMER VACATION

The custom of throwing To keep your lunch cool Calcium is critical to our What is the difference An orange from Florida rice at weddings goes double bag your lunch! health because it helps between a fruit and a will taste different than back to the time when The layers of paper and build strong bones and vegetable? A fruit is an orange from people thought rice, a air help keep the cold in. teeth. It is most basically a sweet pulp California. Temperature symbol of health and Or, you could put an ice important to get calcium that surrounds its seeds and soil will effect how prosperity, would pack or frozen juice box when you are a kid (oranges, apples, the fruit grows and appease evil spirits so in a plastic baggie to because that is the time mangoes). A vegetable istastes. they would not bother make your lunch bag a when the calcium has thea more leaf like plant the wedding couple. mini cooler. most impact on your (cabbage, beans, and bones. potatoes). Try new tastes! Have a California is the #1 food What you eat for lunch The official state The popular soft drink new food each day. Haveproducer in the United really does matter! vegetable of Texas is the Dr. Pepper was actually you ever tried a States. Milk and cream Healthy foods, like fruits Texas Sweet Onion. invented in Waco, TX vegetable like jicama, are the number one cropsand vegetables, whole back in 1885. yogurt, pita bread, or followed by grapes. grains, and low fat milk dried apricots? There are about 89,000 will give you more farms in California! energy in the afternoon and could even keep you more fit. Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Ever wonder how Hush The pineapple is a universal In Japan, Gerber companies top Puppies got their name? sign for hospitality selling baby food is a sardine Many people do not make Years ago, pieces of the fried It takes 10 pounds of milk to dish! their meals at home like they cornmeal batter were fed to make 1 pound of cheese! used to. In the 1920's 70% of hungry dogs that begged for people baked their own food. After the scraps were bread. given to the dogs, the owner would say “Now hush, puppy.”

Each American eats 22 The fruit that has the highest Many years ago, doughnuts In the US, 13 boxes of Jell-O LABOR DAY pounds of tomato per year. amount of antioxidants, or were made of raised dough are sold per second. Can you Over half of those tomatoes the highest fighting power and a nut was actually baked guess what the most popular are in the form of catsup or against disease, is into the center! flavor is?? tomato sauce. blueberries. STRAWBERRY

It takes 12 honeybees just to Sometimes the cooking of foods Have you ever noticed that Did you know hot dogs, Kiwis are a very healthy fruit.make 1 tablespoon of honey actually increases the amount of many restaurants keep the although popular in America, 2 Kiwis supply more good things in them. For temperature very cold? They were first created in China! potassium than a banana and instance, the heating of do this because the colder twice as much vitamin C as tomatoes brings out good you are, the hungrier you will an orange. nutrients that can help prevent be. cancer.

Don’t let the milk sit out! Isn’t it weird that grapefruits, The fist breakfast cereal was If you cannot get raw or fresh The custom of giving teachers Within 2 hours of standing in apples, and pears will float in made by adding sugar and fruits and vegetables, go for apples originated when public daylight, milk loses between Jell-O but cherries and prunesmilk to popped popcorn. the frozen kind next. Usually, school teachers were paid with half to two-thirds of its will not? Ground popcorn was also those fruits and vegetables whatever the community could vitamin B content. used long ago by bread are frozen right after they are afford, often in food or goods. makers in the place of flour. picked so they have less time to lose needed vitamins. October Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Everyone should eat a variety of foods every day. This means Ants are eaten in some Water is reusable. So, a portionThe first microwave ovens that you must include foods What exactly is a calorie? It is countries like Columbia, where of the water you drink has went on sale in 1947. They from each food group because the amount of heat energy that they are fried or roasted and already been drunk by cost almost $3,000 each and no single food can supply all is needed to raise the eaten as a snack at the cinema. someone were the size of a small nutrients that your growing temperature of 1 liter of water else, maybe refrigerator. body needs. Try to eat many by 1 degree Celsius. Then, the several times foods of many different colors calories in food becomes over! and textures in your diet. energy in our bodies.

It used to be the practice at It is good to eat five helpings It has been traditional to serve Zebra tomatoes are golf ball festivals to grease a pig and let of fresh fruit and vegetables fish with a slice of lemon since sized tomatoes with greenish The Texas Red Grapefruit is it loose among blindfolded every day. But what if you the Middle Ages, when people or yellowish stripes. Try one if the state fruit of Texas. contestants. The person who don’t like them? Here’s the believed that the fruit’s acid you can because they taste successfully caught the greased solution: make them into a would dissolve the bones from great! pig could keep it…..and so that smoothie or a milkshake. the fish. person would “bring home the bacon.”

Green vegetables have a lot Carrots were first grown as a Popcorn pops because there is How long does it take our food The word “breakfast” comes more nutrients than starchy medicine, not a food. They moisture in it, and when it gets to completely digest?? It could from “breaking the fast” since vegetables like corn, potatoes, originated 3,000 years ago and heated it turns to steam and take up to 12 hours for your you go all night without eating and rice. So, try to eat more were white, purple and yellow. explodes! food to be entirely digested. it is like you are fasting. It is green vegetables than white very important that you eat ones every day. breakfast everyday. Chewing gum for over 20 Pumpkin halves were minutes a day stresses your If you are not feeling well, Pumpkins were once 99% of all pumpkins are sold supposedly used as guides for jaw bone. But, if you chew a remember that garlic and recommended for removing for decorations. Championship haircuts in colonial New piece of sugarless gum for just onions can help kill flu and freckles and curing snake pumpkins today weigh over Haven, Conneticut, and giving a few minutes helps to clean cold viruses. bites! The Native Americans 800 pounds. rise to the nickname ‘pumpkin your teeth. used the pumpkin seeds for head.’ food and medicine. Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday A man from California, Salt was extremely rare in Good sources of Vitamin C are Bakers used to find that their If you were to burn 1 pound of Frank Epperson, the past. It was so rare that it oranges, lemons, grapefruits, loaves were under weight, so fat, you would have to burn a invented the Popsicle in was often used as pay. strawberries, tomatoes, and they would add an extra loaf total of 3500 calories! 1905 when he was just Imagine earning a couple of potatoes. Foods with a lot of to every dozen, hence the 11 years old! tablespoons of salt for a hard vitamin C when eaten with meatexpression “baker’s dozen.” days work. or beans helps the body also get more iron.

In Egypt, breakfast is Find ways to be active every Leo Hirshfield brought his Carrots really can help you Onions are a very healthy food. often bought and eaten day. You might even write secret recipe for tootsie roll see in the dark! That is The word onion came from a on the street. Usually it isdown a list of fun stuff to do, candy to New York in 1896. He because they contain a lot of Latin word meaning large pearl. bread wrapped around so you can refer to it when named it after his daughter who Vitamin A which is known to assorted fried vegetables your mom or dad say’s it is was nicknamed tootsie. prevent night blindness. like eggplant, beans, time to stop watching TV or tomatoes, and peppers. playing computer games.

The idea for TV dinners came Sometimes people blame that from a man named Gerald George Washington Sweet potatoes and Yams are after dinner tiredness on the Thomas in 1954 when he Originally, pumpkins were used liked ice cream so much not even related. Yams turkey. It is really a compound could not figure out what to as an ingredient for the crust of he reportedly had a bill actually come from Africa or in the turkey, called L- do with his leftover turkey pies, not the filling like they are for $200 just for ice South America and are rarely tryptophan (L-trip-toe-fan) that from Thanksgiving dinner. used now. cream one summer seen here in the US. makes you sleepy. The fist TV dinner was roast turkey with stuffing and gravy, sweet potatoes and peas and sold for just .98 cents.

Cranberries or cranberry The first Thanksgiving meal juice may help heal celebrated by the pilgrims and certain infections by the Native Americans THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY THANKSGIVING THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY killing the bacteria that included turkey, venison HOLIDAY caused them. (deer meat), lobster, fish, sweet potatoes, cranberries and popcorn. Yum!

MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY Chicken soup really is We sure do eat a lot of food It is good to eat whole grains in According to Dominoes Pizza, Yard long beans really do grow good for you. It actually here in America! Here, an your diet every day like brown some of the more popular to 3 feet long, although they are contains a substance that average family of four rice and whole wheat breads. international pizza toppings picked before they reach that helps to relieve consumes almost 6,000 Plain popcorn is also a whole are pickled ginger, minced height, They taste and look like congestion. Chilies, hot pounds of food per year. grain you could eat. mutton and tofu in India, green beans and originated in pepper, garlic, and other squid in Japan, and green peas Africa or Southern Asia. hot spices can also help in Brazil. you when you have a cold.

Ice cream is really Being fit is a way of saying a White fuzz that develops on your Chinese food! Marco Although it is good to eat a person eats well, gets lots of Arugula is a type of salad ice cream is grown from Polo, a famous explorer low fat diet, there are some physical activity, and has a green. It is popular in Italian fertilized ice cream spores. This brought a recipe to Italy fats, like that found in nuts, healthy body weight. If your fit, cooking. The ancient Romans happens when you have another for a dessert called Milk which is good for you and can your body works well, feels used to eat it for good luck. container of ice cream or cool Ice he found in China. help you stay healthy. good, and can do all the things whip and they mate in the The Europeans you want to do. darkness. substituted cream for the milk, and ice cream was officially born.

Why do we say a person “Eats Kwanzaa is an African- The eight day Jewish Festival of Did you know that about Even during the holidays you like a bird” when they are small American feast celebrated Lights is traditionally celebrated 88% of all milk is water should eat all foods in eaters? Birds actually eat ½ from December 26 – January with doughnuts or potato and only about 12% has moderation. This means that their own body weight in food 1st. Originally it was to pancakes (latkes), which are solid food value? So if you have to be careful not to every day. If humans did this, a celebrate the first harvest of fried in oil. This is a reminder of you are thirsty it may be eat too much of any one type 50 pound child would have to crops. Sweet potatoes and the oil that burned in the temple best to drink water or of food. eat 25 pounds of food a day! banana custard with raisins are for eight days. milk. the foods eaten for this celebration.

WINTER BREAK WINTER BREAK WINTER BREAK WINTER BREAK WINTER BREAK

January Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday In Japan, New Year’s food is red snapper, which brings WINTER BREAK WINTER BREAK WINTER BREAK WINTER BREAK good luck because of its color, which the Japanese consider lucky.

A cow has 4 stomachs – A hive of bees flies over Pasta is one of America’s one to store food, one for 55,000 miles to bring you In Madrid, Spain, people Washington State grows favorite foods with 1.3 food more thoroughly one pound of honey. They count down the last the most apples than million pounds of 16 ounce chewed, one where extra must tap two million minutes of the old year by anywhere else in the Unitedspaghetti packages sold lastwater is squeezed out and flowers to make that one popping grapes into their States. Fresh apples float year. That much spaghetti then the one where the pound of honey. Each mouths! because 25% of their could circle the Earth’s remaining food goes. Some worker bee makes 1/12th of volume is air. equator almost nine times. of the digested food is then a teaspoon of honey in its stored in the cows udder lifetime. where it is made into milk.

An egg shell may have as January 19th is National The same chemical that many as 17,000 tiny pores Americans eat 100 acres of Distribution of Animals in Popcorn Day. Some Native gives cherries their color over its surface. Through pizza each day, or 350 a box of Animal Crackers: American tribes popped may relieve pain better thanthem, the egg can absorb slices per second. Each 6 Gorillas, 5 bears, 4 corn right on the cob by aspirin in humans. Be sure flavors and odors. That is man, women and child in camels, 3 rhinos, 2 tigers, 2 spearing the corn cob with to eat cherries often. why storing them in their America eats an average of monkeys, 2 sheep, 1 a stick and holding it near cartons keeps them fresh. 23 pounds of pizza a year. buffalo and 1 lion. the fire. The kernels would pop and stay attached to the cob. Soybean oil is the most One bushel of corn will Colonists thought that the The dairy cow can produce widely used vegetable oil. Ketchup, or catsup, sweeten more than 400 flavor of ham was related enough milk for 40 people It is found in margarine’s, originated in China in cans of soda. Farmers can to the number of snakes for one year, which is aboutsalad dressings, canned 1690. It was used as a grow corn on every eaten by pigs – the more 16,000 glasses. Milk is foods, sauces, baked goods,pickled fish sauce. continent except snakes, the better the very good for you; make and processed fried foods. Antarctica. flavor. sure you drink milk every These foods should be day. limited in your diet to stay healthy.

FEBRUARY Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Pepperoni is America’s The top 10 most recognized Sometimes a hen will favorite pizza topping. One acre of soybeans can Food Characters by Chop suey is not a Chinese produce double-yoked Anchovies always rank last produce 82,368 crayons. Pillsbury are: Doughboy, 7-dish, but was invented in eggs. It is rare, but not on the list of favorite Soy crayons were created Up Spot, California America by Chinese cooks. The unusual, for a young hen to toppings. In Japan, squid is in place of wax crayons Raisins, M&M Characters, name chop suey means “odds produce an egg with no the number one pizza because they are brighter in Tony the Tiger, Trix and ends” and first appeared in yolk at all. topping! color, and less expensive to Rabbit, Nestle Quick print in 1888. make. Bunny, Ronald McDonald, Chester Cheetah, and Elsie the Borden Milk Cow.

Drink water and milk most often. When you are really Abe Lincoln’s mother died Try to taste new foods and The dye used to stamp the The sandwich is named for the thirsty, cold water is the when the family dairy cow old ones you have not tried grade on meats is actually Fourth Earl of Sandwich in the number 1 thirst-quencher. ate poisonous mushrooms for a while. Some foods, edible. It is made from 1700’s, for which sandwiches And, there is a reason your and Mrs. Lincoln drank the like green veggies, taste grape skins. were made so that he could stay school cafeteria offers milk. better the older you get. at the card table without milk. Kids need calcium to Shoot for five servings of interruption for meals. grow strong bones, and fruits and vegetables a day milk is a great source of – 2 fruit and 3 vegetables. this mineral.

How can you tell if a Chile Chocolate contains a Peanut butter sandwiches A law forbidding the sale pepper is spicy? It does not Potato chips were invented in natural substance that has have been a long time of sodas on Sunday back in depend on the color of the 1853 by chef George Crum. been reported to give you favorite of kids. The the 1800’s motivated pepper at all. Usually, the They were made as a joke for a the same reaction in the average child will eat 1,500William Garwood to invent smaller the pepper, the customer who complained that body as falling in love. PB sandwiches by their the ice cream sundae. hotter it is. The hottest their French fries were too high school graduation. pepper in the world is the thick! Habanero. Be careful when eating In a Chinese meal, the last In Russia, they serve pizza your next peanut butter course is always soup. This Pound cake got its name covered with mockba, Rice is a healthy food and is sandwich. The Food and is because they used to because of the pound of which is a combination of very abundant throughout the Drug Administration believe it allowed the meal butter that it contained. sardines, tuna, mackerel, world. Rice is the staple food (FDA) allows an average ofto “swim” towards salmon, and onions. In for more than ½ of the world’s 30 or more insect digestion. France, a popular combo is population. fragments and one or more called the Flambee, with rodent hairs in every jar of bacon, onion, and fresh peanut butter, cream.

MARCH Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

How much Calcium do More than 1/2 of the weight Aerobic exercise, like The next time someone kids need? If you are 9 or of your body is water. The walking, running, says “Eat like a pig,” take it older you need 1300mg a higher amount of water you swimming, skating, and as a compliment! Pigs day. You can get calcium have usually the lower playing soccer burns fat don’t overeat, and their diet from milk, cheese, and amount of fat you may have and calories in your body. is the closest to the human According to folklore, yogurt or even cooked on your body. Try to do 30 minutes or diet than any other animal. pretzels were given to white beans. Try to eat 3 more of activity on most children who knew their servings of foods a day days of the week. prayers. The pretzel shape that have calcium. was supposed to signify arms folded across the chest in prayer.

Antioxidants are things It is important for everyone Watermelons are very The ancient Egyptians The day before Lent is found in foods that help to maintain a healthy weight healthy and delicious. They thought onions kept evil called Fat Tuesday, Shrove protect our bodies from by balancing the amount of contain good nutrients like spirits away. When they Tuesday, or Mardi Gras. illness and disease. Fruits calories you eat with the vitamins A, B6, C as well made a promise, they Traditionally, people made and vegetables contain amount of calories the body as potassium. Every part of would place one hand on pancakes to use up their lots of antioxidants, like uses for activity. the watermelon is edible – an onion. butter and eggs, which Vitamins A, C and E to even the rind! were not allowed during keep us healthy. Lent.

SPRING BREAK SPRING BREAK SPRING BREAK SPRING BREAK SPRING BREAK

What do you, the trees, According to the Guinness Fat contains more than and a hamster have in 16 billion jelly beans are Ninety million chocolate World Records, the largest twice the amount of common? You all need made for Easter. Can you Easter bunnies are made Easter egg ever made was calories as equal amounts water. All living things guess which color jelly bean each year. In the United more than 25 feet high and of carbohydrates or protein. must have water to is kids’ favorite? Red States, 76% made of chocolate and You should not eat more survive, whether they get marshmallow. The egg than ~65 grams of fat per it from a water fountain, a weighed almost 9,000 day to stay healthy. rain cloud, or a little bottle pounds! attached to the side of a hamster cage. of people eat the ears on chocolate bunnies first.

APRIL Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday In France, a person who is Fish is actually good for For many years Europeans One of the important What is Jell-O made of? It fooled on April 1st is called your brain because of the have used garlic as a charm nutrients you get from food consists of 4 ingredients: “April Fish.” Chocolate mineral zinc it contains. If against the evil eye. Some is fiber. Good sources of gelatin, water, artificial fish are the treats for the you are low on zinc it can wore bulbs of garlic around fiber are beans, oatmeal, sweetener, and food day. affect your memory and their necks. Others would wheat breads, cereals and coloring. Not to gross you thinking. place wreaths of garlic overthe skins of many fruits andout but gelatin is made up In the US long ago people their doors for protection. vegetables. Fiber can help of a kind of protein found poured chocolate over your heart, help you from in cow and pig hides, pieces of cotton on April 1st getting diseases and it helpshooves and bones. to fool others with “cotton you digest your food better. candy.”

Why does cutting onions Does it really take years to make you cry? When you In 1830 pizza began with Americans should not eat Spinach is good for your digest gum if we swallow cut into an onion, a the opening of the world’s more than 10 teaspoons per spirits. It contains a lot of a it? Nope, that is just a powerful acid sprays up first pizzeria. The pizzas day of sugar. One soft vitamin called folic acid. If myth. Our stomach doesn’t into the air. The acid causeswere cooked in an oven drink alone contains about you do not have enough digest gum at all. Because your eyes to sting and lined with lava from Mount 9 teaspoons of sugar. Make folic acid in your body you it is made out of soluble begin to tear up until they Vesuvius, a volcano sure to limit the amount of may feel sad and fiber, chewing gum passes have gotten rid of the located in Italy. sugar you eat every day. depressed. right through us! It comes irritation. out with the rest of our waste, usually a day or two after you eat it.

The word “pothole” came Wash your hands before British sailors used to be The first recorded Chew your food! Food from the Irish. They use to eating! Germs, which can called “Limeys” because watermelon harvest needs to be well mixed in boil their potatoes in a pot, make you sick, are spread they ate limes to prevent appeared in hieroglyphics your mouth with saliva so when they were finished more easily from your scurvy, a disease caused by on an Egyptian tomb 5,000 it can slide down easily andcooking, the pot was lifted hands, than say, your lips. lack of Vitamin C in the years ago. Early explorers start being digested. off the fire and set on the When you have a cold, diet. also used watermelons as ground to cool. In the keep your hands clean and canteens to carry water process of mashing the don’t worry about kissing during dry seasons. potatoes, the pot would be someone. pushed into the ground and in time a deep hole would develop – a pothole!

Your body is made up of a To get more of the good Turkeys lay eggs just like If you’re hot should you Today we are eating 900% large amount of protein. nutrients in your diet eat chickens do. But turkey cool off with ice cream? more broccoli than we did Protein is part of all your highly colored foods like eggs are twice as big as No. Ice cream feels cool, 20 years ago. Today, the cells, muscle, bones and sweet potatoes, carrots, chicken eggs. They are palebut because it is loaded average person in the US skin. In your diet you can cantaloupe, squash, and a creamy tan color withwith a lot of calories, or eats four and a half pounds find protein in meats, eggs, apricots, pumpkin, mangos, brown speckles. energy, it actually makes of broccoli each year – cheese, nuts, beans, and and leafy green vegetables your body warmer. which is great because soy. Make sure to include like collard greens, broccoli is very nutritious. protein foods in your diet spinach, and kale. every day.

MAY Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday The food that you eat is People did not have Vitamin E helps keep your The body gets its water Food should always be made up of fat, protein, refrigerators until the blood and skin healthy. from three sources: from enjoyable. But, if food is fiber and carbohydrates. 1920’s. Before that they Foods that have a lot of drinks, from the water in not handled correctly These nutrients give you kept food cold by storing it Vitamin E in them are nuts, foods (especially fruits and harmful bacteria can grow energy and calories in your on windowsills, blocks of beans, and lots of green vegetables), and as a result and cause food poisoning. diet. ice, or even burying it in vegetables. of reactions within the Wash your hands the garden to keep it cool. body. It is recommended to thoroughly before you drink 6-8 glasses of water touch food, after going to per day. the bathroom, and after touching pets.

Vitamin C helps your teeth,Some people have allergic Caffeine can make you The yeast that is used as an The world record for gums and bones. It also reactions to food. Almost very awake, but too much ingredient in the baking of watermelon seed spitting is helps to heal your cuts and 75% of these reactions are is not good for you. A 60 breads is actually a single held by Jack Dietz of bruises. You can find lots caused by either eggs, pound child who drinks 2 celled fungus. Chicago, who spit a seed a of Vitamin C in oranges, peanuts, or milk. soft drinks in a day is distance of 66 feet and 11 tomatoes, broccoli, and getting the same amount of inches! melons. caffeine as a 175 pound adult who drinks 8 cups of coffee!

In order for a product to be Folate is a nutrient very Uglifruit is a fruit that Texas has 2 official state It takes about 20 minutes called “chocolate” it must important for growth and comes from Jamaica. It is a peppers: the jalapeno and for your brain to get the contain chocolate liquor, kids often do not get cross between a grapefruit the chiltepin. Both of message that your body is which is what gives it the enough of it. You could eat and a mandarin orange. It iswhich are used in the getting food and is full. So, bitter flavor and dark color. fortified breakfast cereal in about the size of a small official state dish of Texas slow down when your So there is no such thing as the morning, breads, or grapefruit and has an ugly – Chili. eating to give your brain a “white chocolate” even green leafy vegetables appearance. chance to get the word your though it comes from the throughout the day to make full! cocoa plant because it does sure you get enough of this not have the liquor added important nutrient. to it.

Lentils are a member of the Fat is found in plants and inIron is a mineral that helps Vitamin A is good for your The official state plant of pea family. They are grown meat. The fat from plants is you keep your blood teeth and skin and gives Texas is the prickly pear for there seeds, which are called oil. Many healthy healthy. Good sources of you energy. You can find cactus which you can dried and used in soups andoils come from olives, and iron to eat every day Vitamin A in spinach, fruit, actually eat. It tastes stews. They are rich in seeds like sesame seeds. include red meat, eggs, and milk. similar to a tart green bean, protein and carbohydrates Your body needs some fat fortified breakfast cereals, asparagus, or pepper. and are also a good source but most people eat way and beans. of calcium, phosphorous, too much so be careful! iron and the B vitamins.