Nutrient Labeling

Windows of Susceptibility RESEARCH Breast UNIVERSITY OF Cancer Cincinnati PARTNERS Risk Dept of Env Hlth CROSSWORD PUZZLES for better health Finding a good (and accurate) way to measure nutritient value of foods is hard work. These values are usually based on 100 g of food, which doesn't fairly represent the nutritional benefits of the more than 26,000 different phytochemicals found in fruits and vegetables, while overstating the nutrient value of calorie dense foods with lower water content. Across Word Clues 1. Virtually all ___ even if dehydrated, has water, 2. Vegetables and ______ contain as much as 80-92% water, 3. Over 4 billion people in the world primarily eat one of three staples which are _____ rice and wheat, 4. Just 15 crop plants provide 90 percent of the world's food energy intake and ____maize and wheat are at the top, 5. Databases for food nutrients including information posted on the FDAs nutrition website typically base percentage in nutrition labels using 100 grams of ______ as a standard, 6. In western countries 22 percent of the diet is ______ product, 7. 100 g of snack food may falsely ______ to have more nutrients than high water content foods, 8. School cafeterias are having to say goodbye to ______ and Doritos which are low water content but calorie dense foods with poor nutrient benefits, 9. Some researchers have suggested that nutrient density be based on 100 ____ of food rather than 100 g (by weight), 10. Food that is ___ in water content generally is highly processed and designed for snacking, 11. Nutrient value of high energy dense and low water content food is usually ____, 12. Grains fruits and _____ vegetables - like yams - can be staple foods, 13. 823 million metric ____ of maize are produced annually, 14. According to the Institute of Medicine about _____ percent of our water comes from food, DOWN 1. The definition of a staple food is a low cost readily available food that offers either protein ___ or carbohydrates, 2. Just because the product says no butterfat and no cholesterol does not make it fat ____, 3. A quick calculation of nutrients in watermelon which is ____ than 90% water would be to multiply the nutrient list by 9 times and that comes close to being accurate. 4. The calculation of nutrient density based on kcal is termed Nutrient-____, 5. This large round to oval fruit is more than 90% water, 6. Staple foods are not ________ nutritionally speaking, 7. The nutrient density of dried _____ is high because this is a fruit with a very low water content and thus it changes the nutrient list based on 100 g. 8. Another fruit with lower than usual water content but high in nutrition and natural sugar is the ___, 9. In africa 45 percent of the main diet is _____, 10. Nutrition ______ set up the opportunity for corporate fabrication about food nutrient value, 11. When requesting a value for water content from FritoLay about Doritos I got a form ______ by email with a no-reply address saying it was not possible to obtain this information (which is pretty tacky), 12. Calculating nutrient value of food based on 100 g of food is __________, 13. Is a staple food always full of nutrition? 14. Fats ____ butter and sugar conain the least amount of water so their nutrient content is more accurate, 15. Staple foods also need to be able to be ______ for long periods of time, 16. What is the component of food that causes comarisons in nutritional value to be misleading?, It is clear that fruits, vegetables, condiments and spices that are available to us as fresh produce in most parts of the world have great anticancer benefits. It is just as Answers: clear that it is our CHOICE whether or not to eat them. Links to more puzzles.

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