MyPlate Vocabulary Crossword Puzzle
Across
- 3. a unit for measuring the amount of energy that food will produce.
- 7. a serious disease in which there is too much sugar in your blood.
- 10. an amount of food that is enough for one person.
- 11. the process of giving or getting the right type of food for good health and growth.
- 12. a silver-white metal that helps to form teeth and bones (milk has this).
- 13. a part of a number or amount, considered in relation to the whole.
- 15. a medical condition that makes you very unhappy and anxious.
- 18. an illness, which prevents your heart from working normally.
- 20. not use enough of something, so that what you do is unsuccessful or of bad quality.
- 24. using a lot of energy and strength or determination.
- 26. a substance that is in foods like sugar, bread, rice, which gives your body with energy.
- 29. the material forming animal or plant cells.
- 30. likely to develop into a particular type of person or thing in the future.
- 31. a substance in foods that helps digestion and keeps food moving through your body.
Down
- 1. food products like milk, butter, cheese.
- 2. not very large yet not very small.
- 4. an oily substance contained in certain foods.
- 5. extremely important and necessary.
- 6. to make something smaller or less than it was originally.
- 8. United States Department of Agriculture - a government agency, which makes sure farmers, follow the laws of food production.
- 9. arranged to include things of different kinds in the right amounts.
- 14. food that has substances added to it in order to preserve it or improve its color.
- 16. the art of combining pictures, words and/or shapes.
- 17. the differences within a group OR a set of actions that make it interesting.
- 19. to improve the quality of something, especially by adding things to it.
- 20. to use something new or different instead of something else.
- 21. to make food or drinks more healthy by adding vitamins to them.
- 22. a natural substance such as iron that is present in some foods and is important for health.
- 23. meat from birds such as chickens and ducks English for pollo.
- 25. a soft white food made from soya beans, used in cooking instead of meat.
- 27. the seeds of crops such as corn, wheat, or rice that are gathered for use as food.
- 28. a substance in food that is necessary for good health.
- 30. a natural substance in foods that your body needs in order to grow, be strong, and healthy.