MyPlate Vocabulary Crossword Puzzle

1. the seeds of crops such as corn, wheat, or rice that are gathered for use as food.
2. not use enough of something, so that what you do is unsuccessful or of bad quality.
3. to make something smaller or less than it was originally.
8. to make food or drinks more healthy by adding vitamins to them.
9. the differences within a group OR a set of actions that make it interesting.
10. food products like milk, butter, cheese.
13. the process of giving or getting the right type of food for good health and growth.
14. an illness, which prevents your heart from working normally.
18. a natural substance such as iron that is present in some foods and is important for health.
19. food that has substances added to it in order to preserve it or improve its color.
20. to use something new or different instead of something else.
21. a substance in foods that helps digestion and keeps food moving through your body.
23. likely to develop into a particular type of person or thing in the future.
25. a soft white food made from soya beans, used in cooking instead of meat.
26. a silver-white metal that helps to form teeth and bones (milk has this).
28. an amount of food that is enough for one person.

1. the art of combining pictures, words and/or shapes.
4. extremely important and necessary.
5. to improve the quality of something, especially by adding things to it.
6. United States Department of Agriculture - a government agency, which makes sure farmers, follow the laws of food production.
7. a substance that is in foods like sugar, bread, rice, which gives your body with energy.
9. using a lot of energy and strength or determination.
11. a serious disease in which there is too much sugar in your blood.
12. an oily substance contained in certain foods.
15. a substance in food that is necessary for good health.
16. a medical condition that makes you very unhappy and anxious.
17. a part of a number or amount, considered in relation to the whole.
18. not very large yet not very small.
19. a natural substance in foods that your body needs in order to grow, be strong, and healthy.
22. arranged to include things of different kinds in the right amounts.
23. meat from birds such as chickens and ducks English for pollo.
24. the material forming animal or plant cells.
27. a unit for measuring the amount of energy that food will produce.