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The custom of throwing
rice at weddings goes
back to the time when
people thought rice, a
symbol of health and
prosperity, would
appease evil spirits so
they would not bother
the wedding couple.
To keep your lunch cool
double bag your lunch!
The layers of paper and
air help keep the cold in.
Or, you could put an ice
pack or frozen juice box
in a plastic baggie to
make your lunch bag a
mini cooler.
Try new tastes! Have a
new food each day. Have
you ever tried a vegetable
like jicama, yogurt, pita
bread, or dried apricots?
California is the #1 food
producer in the United
States. Milk and cream
are the number one
crops followed by grapes.
There are about 89,000
farms in California!
Calcium is critical to our What is the difference
health because it helps between a fruit and a
build strong bones and vegetable? A fruit is
teeth. It is most
basically a sweet pulp
important to get calcium that surrounds its seeds
when you are a kid
(oranges, apples,
because that is the time mangoes). A vegetable is
when the calcium has the a more leaf like plant
most impact on your
(cabbage, beans, and
bones.
potatoes).
What you eat for lunch The official state
really does matter!
vegetable of Texas is the
Healthy foods, like fruits Texas Sweet Onion.
and vegetables, whole
grains, and low fat milk
will give you more energy
in the afternoon and
could even keep you
more fit.
An orange from Florida
will taste different than
an orange from
California. Temperature
and soil will effect how
the fruit grows and tastes.
The popular soft drink
Dr. Pepper was actually
invented in Waco, TX
back in 1885.
September
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Ever wonder how Hush
The pineapple is a universal
Puppies got their name? Years
sign for hospitality
Many people do not make
ago, pieces of the fried
It takes 10 pounds of milk to
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.”
LABOR DAY
Each American eats 22
pounds of tomato per year.
Over half of those tomatoes
are in the form of catsup or
tomato sauce.
Have you ever noticed that
Did you know hot dogs,
many restaurants keep the
although popular in America,
temperature very cold? They were first created in China!
do this because the colder you
are, the hungrier you will be.
The fruit that has the highest
amount of antioxidants, or
the highest fighting power
against disease, is blueberries.
Friday
In Japan, Gerber companies top
selling baby food is a sardine
dish!
Many years ago, doughnuts
were made of raised dough
and a nut was actually baked
into the center!
In the US, 13 boxes of Jell-O are
sold per second. Can you guess
what the most popular flavor is??
STRAWBERRY
It
takes
12
honey
bees
just to
make
1
Sometimes the cooking of foods
actually increases the amount of
good things in them. For
instance, the heating of
tomatoes brings out good
nutrients that can help prevent
cancer.
Kiwis are a very healthy fruit.
2 Kiwis supply more
potassium than a banana and
twice as much vitamin C as
an orange.
tablespoon of honey
Don’t let the milk sit out!
Isn’t it weird that grapefruits, The fist breakfast cereal was
Within 2 hours of standing in apples, and pears will float in made by adding sugar and
daylight, milk loses between Jell-O but cherries and prunes milk to popped popcorn.
half to two-thirds of its
will not?
Ground popcorn was also
vitamin B content.
used long ago by bread
makers in the place of flour.
If you cannot get raw or fresh The custom of giving teachers
fruits and vegetables, go for apples originated when public
the frozen kind next. Usually, school teachers were paid with
those fruits and vegetables are whatever the community could
frozen right after they are
afford, often in food or goods.
picked so they have less time
to lose needed vitamins.
October
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Wednesday Thursday
Everyone should eat a variety
of foods every day. This means
that you must include foods
from each food group because
no single food can supply all
nutrients that your growing
body needs. Try to eat many
foods of many different colors
and textures in your diet.
Ants are eaten in some
What exactly is a calorie? It is countries like Columbia, where
the amount of heat energy that they are fried or roasted and
is needed to raise the
eaten as a snack at the cinema.
temperature of 1 liter of water
by 1 degree Celsius. Then, the
calories in food becomes
energy in our bodies.
Water is
reusable.
So, a
portion of
the water
you drink
has already been drunk by
someone else, maybe several
times over!
The first microwave ovens
went on sale in 1947. They
cost almost $3,000 each and
were the size of a small
refrigerator.
It is good to eat five helpings of
fresh fruit and vegetables every
day. But what if you don’t like
them? Here’s the solution:
make them into a smoothie or
a milkshake.
It has been traditional to serve
fish with a slice of lemon since
the Middle Ages, when people
believed that the fruit’s acid
would dissolve the bones from
the fish.
Zebra tomatoes are golf ball
sized tomatoes with greenish or The Texas Red Grapefruit is
yellowish stripes. Try one if you the state fruit of Texas.
can because they taste great!
Green vegetables have a lot
more nutrients than starchy
vegetables like corn, potatoes,
and rice. So, try to eat more
green vegetables than white
ones every day.
Chewing gum for over 20
minutes a day stresses your jaw
bone. But, if you chew a piece
of sugarless gum for just a few
minutes helps to clean your
teeth.
Carrots were first grown as a
medicine, not a food. They
originated 3,000 years ago and
were white, purple and yellow.
Popcorn pops because there is
moisture in it, and when it gets
heated it turns to steam and
explodes!
If you are not feeling well,
remember that garlic and
onions can help kill flu and
cold viruses.
Friday
It used to be the practice at
festivals to grease a pig and let
it loose among blindfolded
contestants. The person who
successfully caught the greased
pig could keep it…..and so that
person would “bring home the
bacon.”
How long does it take our food The word “breakfast” comes
to completely digest?? It could from “breaking the fast” since
take up to 12 hours for your you go all night without eating
food to be entirely digested.
it is like you are fasting. It is
very important that you eat
breakfast everyday.
Pumpkin halves were
Pumpkins were once
99% of all pumpkins are sold supposedly used as guides for
recommended for removing
for decorations. Championship haircuts in colonial New
freckles and curing snake bites! pumpkins today weigh over
Haven, Conneticut, and giving
The Native Americans used the 800 pounds.
rise to the nickname ‘pumpkin
pumpkin seeds for food and
head.’
medicine.
November
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Tuesday
Wednesday
A man from California,
Frank Epperson,
invented the Popsicle in
1905 when he was just
11 years old!
Salt was extremely rare in the
past. It was so rare that it was
often used as pay. Imagine
earning a couple of
tablespoons of salt for a hard
days work.
Good sources of Vitamin C are
oranges, lemons, grapefruits,
strawberries, tomatoes, and
potatoes. Foods with a lot of
vitamin C when eaten with
meat or beans helps the body
also get more iron.
Bakers used to find that their If you were to burn 1 pound of
loaves were under weight, so fat, you would have to burn a
they would add an extra loaf total of 3500 calories!
to every dozen, hence the
expression “baker’s dozen.”
In Egypt, breakfast is
often bought and eaten
on the street. Usually it
is bread wrapped around
assorted fried vegetables
like eggplant, beans,
tomatoes, and peppers.
Find ways to be active every
day. You might even write
down a list of fun stuff to do,
so you can refer to it when
your mom or dad say’s it is
time to stop watching TV or
playing computer games.
Leo Hirshfield brought his
secret recipe for tootsie roll
candy to New York in 1896. He
named it after his daughter who
was nicknamed tootsie.
Carrots really can help you see Onions are a very healthy food.
in the dark! That is because
The word onion came from a
they contain a lot of Vitamin Latin word meaning large pearl.
A which is known to prevent
night blindness.
Sometimes people blame that
George Washington
Sweet potatoes and Yams are after dinner tiredness on the
liked ice cream so much not even related. Yams
turkey. It is really a compound
he reportedly had a bill actually come from Africa or in the turkey, called Lfor $200 just for ice
South America and are rarely tryptophan (L-trip-toe-fan) that
cream one summer
seen here in the US.
makes you sleepy.
Cranberries or cranberry
juice may help heal
certain infections by
killing the bacteria that
caused them.
MONDAY
The first Thanksgiving meal
celebrated by the pilgrims and
the Native Americans
THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
included turkey, venison (deer
meat), lobster, fish, sweet
potatoes, cranberries and
popcorn. Yum!
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
Thursday
The idea for TV dinners came
from a man named Gerald
Thomas in 1954 when he
could not figure out what to
do with his leftover turkey
from Thanksgiving dinner.
The fist TV dinner was roast
turkey with stuffing and gravy,
sweet potatoes and peas and
sold for just .98 cents.
Friday
Originally, pumpkins were used
as an ingredient for the crust of
pies, not the filling like they are
used now.
THANKSGIVING
HOLIDAY
THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
Chicken soup really is We sure do eat a lot of food
good for you. It actually here in America! Here, an
contains a substance that average family of four
helps to relieve
consumes almost 6,000
congestion. Chilies, hot pounds of food per year.
pepper, garlic, and other
hot spices can also help
you when you have a
cold.
It is good to eat whole grains in According to Dominoes Pizza,
your diet every day like brown
some of the more popular
rice and whole wheat breads.
international pizza toppings
Plain popcorn is also a whole
are pickled ginger, minced
grain you could eat.
mutton and tofu in India,
squid in Japan, and green peas
in Brazil.
Yard long beans really do grow
to 3 feet long, although they are
picked before they reach that
height, They taste and look like
green beans and originated in
Africa or Southern Asia.
Ice cream is really
Being fit is a way of saying a
Chinese food! Marco
Although it is good to eat a
person eats well, gets lots of
Arugula is a type of salad
Polo, a famous explorer low fat diet, there are some
physical activity, and has a
green. It is popular in Italian
brought a recipe to Italy fats, like that found in nuts, healthy body weight. If your fit, cooking. The ancient Romans
for a dessert called Milk which is good for you and can your body works well, feels
used to eat it for good luck.
Ice he found in China. help you stay healthy.
good, and can do all the things
The Europeans
you want to do.
substituted cream for the
milk, and ice cream was
officially born.
White fuzz that develops on your
ice cream is grown from
fertilized ice cream spores. This
happens when you have another
container of ice cream or cool
whip and they mate in the
darkness.
Why do we say a person “Eats
Kwanzaa is an AfricanDid you know that about Even during the holidays you like a bird” when they are small American feast celebrated
88% of all milk is water should eat all foods in
eaters? Birds actually eat ½ their from December 26 – January
and only about 12% has moderation. This means that own body weight in food every
1st. Originally it was to
solid food value? So if
you have to be careful not to
day. If humans did this, a 50
celebrate the first harvest of
you are thirsty it may be eat too much of any one type pound child would have to eat
crops. Sweet potatoes and
best to drink water or
of food.
25 pounds of food a day!
banana custard with raisins
milk.
are the foods eaten for this
celebration.
The eight day Jewish Festival of
Lights is traditionally celebrated
with doughnuts or potato
pancakes (latkes), which are fried
in oil. This is a reminder of the
oil that burned in the temple for
eight days.
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January
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Tuesday
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A cow has 4 stomachs –
Pasta is one of America’s one to store food, one for
In Madrid, Spain, people Washington State grows
favorite foods with 1.3
food more thoroughly
count down the last
the most apples than
million pounds of 16 ounce chewed, one where extra
minutes of the old year by anywhere else in the
spaghetti packages sold last water is squeezed out and
popping grapes into their United States. Fresh apples year. That much spaghetti then the one where the
mouths!
float because 25% of their could circle the Earth’s
remaining food goes. Some
volume is air.
equator almost nine times. of the digested food is then
stored in the cows udder
where it is made into milk.
An egg shell may have as
The same chemical that
many as 17,000 tiny pores
gives cherries their color
over its surface. Through
may relieve pain better
them, the egg can absorb
than aspirin in humans. Be flavors and odors. That is
sure to eat cherries often. why storing them in their
cartons keeps them fresh.
One bushel of corn will
sweeten more than 400
cans of soda. Farmers can
grow corn on every
continent except
Antarctica.
Colonists thought that the
flavor of ham was related to
the number of snakes eaten
by pigs – the more snakes,
the better the flavor.
In Japan, New Year’s food is
red snapper, which brings
good luck because of its color,
which the Japanese consider
lucky.
A hive of bees flies over
55,000 miles to bring you
one pound of honey. They
must tap two million
flowers to make that one
pound of honey. Each
worker bee makes 1/12th of
a teaspoon of honey in its
lifetime.
January 19th is National
Americans eat 100 acres of Distribution of Animals in Popcorn Day. Some Native
pizza each day, or 350 slices a box of Animal Crackers: American tribes popped
per second. Each man,
6 Gorillas, 5 bears, 4
corn right on the cob by
women and child in
camels, 3 rhinos, 2 tigers, 2 spearing the corn cob with
America eats an average of monkeys, 2 sheep, 1 buffalo a stick and holding it near
23 pounds of pizza a year. and 1 lion.
the fire. The kernels would
pop and stay attached to
the cob.
Soybean oil is the most
The dairy cow can produce widely used vegetable oil. It Ketchup, or catsup,
enough milk for 40 people is found in margarine’s,
originated in China in
for one year, which is about salad dressings, canned
1690. It was used as a
16,000 glasses. Milk is very foods, sauces, baked goods, pickled fish sauce.
good for you; make sure
and processed fried foods.
you drink milk every day. These foods should be
limited in your diet to stay
healthy.
FEBRUARY
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Tuesday
Wednesday
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Friday
Sometimes a hen will
produce double-yoked eggs.
It is rare, but not unusual,
for a young hen to produce
an egg with no yolk at all.
Pepperoni is America’s
favorite pizza topping.
Anchovies always rank last
on the list of favorite
toppings. In Japan, squid is
the number one pizza
topping!
Drink water and milk most
often. When you are really
thirsty, cold water is the
number 1 thirst-quencher.
And, there is a reason your
school cafeteria offers milk.
Kids need calcium to grow
strong bones, and milk is a
great source of this
mineral.
Abe Lincoln’s mother died Try to taste new foods and The dye used to stamp the
when the family dairy cow old ones you have not tried grade on meats is actually
ate poisonous mushrooms for a while. Some foods,
edible. It is made from
and Mrs. Lincoln drank the like green veggies, taste
grape skins.
milk.
better the older you get.
Shoot for five servings of
fruits and vegetables a day –
2 fruit and 3 vegetables.
One acre of soybeans can
produce 82,368 crayons.
Soy crayons were created in
place of wax crayons
because they are brighter in
color, and less expensive to
make.
The top 10 most recognized
Food Characters by
Chop suey is not a Chinese
Pillsbury are: Doughboy, 7- dish, but was invented in
Up Spot, California
America by Chinese cooks. The
Raisins, M&M Characters, name chop suey means “odds
Tony the Tiger, Trix
and ends” and first appeared in
Rabbit, Nestle Quick
print in 1888.
Bunny, Ronald McDonald,
Chester Cheetah, and Elsie
the Borden Milk Cow.
How can you tell if a Chile
A law forbidding the sale of pepper is spicy? It does not
sodas on Sunday back in
depend on the color of the
the 1800’s motivated
pepper at all. Usually, the
William Garwood to invent smaller the pepper, the
the ice cream sundae.
hotter it is. The hottest
pepper in the world is the
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,
sandwich. The Food and is because they used to
because of the pound of
which is a combination of
Drug Administration
believe it allowed the meal butter that it contained.
sardines, tuna, mackerel,
(FDA) allows an average of to “swim” towards
salmon, and onions. In
30 or more insect
digestion.
France, a popular combo is
fragments and one or more
called the Flambee, with
rodent hairs in every jar of
bacon, onion, and fresh
peanut butter,
cream.
Chocolate contains a
natural substance that has
been reported to give you
the same reaction in the
body as falling in love.
Peanut butter sandwiches
have been a long time
favorite of kids. The
average child will eat 1,500
PB sandwiches by their
high school graduation.
MARCH
The sandwich is named for the
Fourth Earl of Sandwich in the
1700’s, for which sandwiches
were made so that he could stay
at the card table without
interruption for meals.
Potato chips were invented in
1853 by chef George Crum.
They were made as a joke for a
customer who complained that
their French fries were too
thick!
Rice is a healthy food and is
very abundant throughout the
world. Rice is the staple food
for more than ½ of the world’s
population.
Monday
How much Calcium do
kids need? If you are 9 or
older you need 1300mg a
day. You can get calcium
from milk, cheese, and
yogurt or even cooked
white beans. Try to eat 3
servings of foods a day
that have calcium.
Tuesday
Wednesday
More than 1/2 of the weight Aerobic exercise, like
The next time someone
of your body is water. The walking, running,
says “Eat like a pig,” take it
higher amount of water you swimming, skating, and
as a compliment! Pigs don’t
have usually the lower
playing soccer burns fat and overeat, and their diet is
amount of fat you may have calories in your body. Try the closest to the human
on your body.
to do 30 minutes or more diet than any other animal.
of activity on most days of
the week.
Antioxidants are things
It is important for everyone
found in foods that help to maintain a healthy weight
protect our bodies from by balancing the amount of
illness and disease. Fruits calories you eat with the
and vegetables contain lots amount of calories the body
of antioxidants, like
uses for activity.
Vitamins A, C and E to
keep us healthy.
SPRING BREAK
Thursday
SPRING BREAK
What do you, the trees,
and a hamster have in
16 billion jelly beans are
common? You all need
made for Easter. Can you
water. All living things
guess which color jelly bean
must have water to
is kids’ favorite? Red
survive, whether they get it
from a water fountain, a
rain cloud, or a little
bottle attached to the side
of a hamster cage.
Watermelons are very
The ancient Egyptians
healthy and delicious. They thought onions kept evil
contain good nutrients like spirits away. When they
vitamins A, B6, C as well as made a promise, they
potassium. Every part of the would place one hand on
watermelon is edible – even an onion.
the rind!
SPRING BREAK
Ninety million chocolate
Easter bunnies are made
each year. In the United
States, 76%
Friday
According to folklore,
pretzels were given to
children who knew their
prayers. The pretzel shape
was supposed to signify
arms folded across the
chest in prayer.
The day before Lent is
called Fat Tuesday, Shrove
Tuesday, or Mardi Gras.
Traditionally, people made
pancakes to use up their
butter and eggs, which were
not allowed during Lent.
SPRING BREAK
SPRING BREAK
According to the Guinness
World Records, the largest
Easter egg ever made was
more than 25 feet high and
made of chocolate and
marshmallow. The egg
weighed almost 9,000
pounds!
Fat contains more than
twice the amount of
calories as equal amounts
of carbohydrates or
protein. You should not eat
more than ~65 grams of fat
per day to stay healthy.
of people
eat the ears on chocolate
bunnies first.
APRIL
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
In France, a person who is
fooled on April 1st is called
“April Fish.” Chocolate
fish are the treats for the
day.
Fish is actually good for
your brain because of the
mineral zinc it contains. If
you are low on zinc it can
affect your memory and
thinking.
In the US long ago people
poured chocolate over
pieces of cotton on April 1st
to fool others with “cotton
candy.”
Why does cutting onions
make you cry? When you
cut into an onion, a
powerful acid sprays up
into the air. The acid
causes your eyes to sting
and begin to tear up until
they have gotten rid of the
irritation.
Wash your hands before
eating! Germs, which can
make you sick, are spread
more easily from your
hands, than say, your lips.
When you have a cold,
keep your hands clean and
don’t worry about kissing
someone.
For many years Europeans
have used garlic as a charm
against the evil eye. Some
wore bulbs of garlic around
their necks. Others would
place wreaths of garlic over
their doors for protection.
In 1830 pizza began with Americans should not eat
the opening of the world’s more than 10 teaspoons
first pizzeria. The pizzas
per day of sugar. One soft
were cooked in an oven
drink alone contains about
lined with lava from Mount 9 teaspoons of sugar. Make
Vesuvius, a volcano located sure to limit the amount of
in Italy.
sugar you eat every day.
British sailors used to be
called “Limeys” because
they ate limes to prevent
scurvy, a disease caused by
lack of Vitamin C in the
diet.
The first recorded
watermelon harvest
appeared in hieroglyphics
on an Egyptian tomb 5,000
years ago. Early explorers
also used watermelons as
canteens to carry water
during dry seasons.
Turkeys lay eggs just like
If you’re hot should you
Today we are eating 900%
chickens do. But turkey
cool off with ice cream? No. more broccoli than we did
eggs are twice as big as
Ice cream feels cool, but
20 years ago. Today, the
chicken eggs. They are pale because it is loaded with a average person in the US
and a creamy tan color with lot of calories, or energy, it eats four and a half pounds
brown speckles.
actually makes your body of broccoli each year –
warmer.
which is great because
broccoli is very nutritious.
MAY
One of the important
What is Jell-O made of? It
nutrients you get from food consists of 4 ingredients:
is fiber. Good sources of
gelatin, water, artificial
fiber are beans, oatmeal,
sweetener, and food
wheat breads, cereals and coloring. Not to gross you
the skins of many fruits and out but gelatin is made up
vegetables. Fiber can help of a kind of protein found
your heart, help you from in cow and pig hides,
getting diseases and it helps hooves and bones.
you digest your food better.
Spinach is good for your
spirits. It contains a lot of a
vitamin called folic acid. If
you do not have enough
folic acid in your body you
may feel sad and depressed.
Does it really take years to
digest gum if we swallow it?
Nope, that is just a myth.
Our stomach doesn’t digest
gum at all. Because it is
made out of soluble fiber,
chewing gum passes right
through us! It comes out
with the rest of our waste,
usually a day or two after
you eat it.
The word “pothole” came
Chew your food! Food
from the Irish. They use to
needs to be well mixed in boil their potatoes in a pot,
your mouth with saliva so it when they were finished
can slide down easily and cooking, the pot was lifted
start being digested.
off the fire and set on the
ground to cool. In the
process of mashing the
potatoes, the pot would be
pushed into the ground
and in time a deep hole
would develop – a pothole!
Your body is made up of a
large amount of protein.
Protein is part of all your
cells, muscle, bones and
skin. In your diet you can
find protein in meats, eggs,
cheese, nuts, beans, and
soy. Make sure to include
protein foods in your diet
every day.
To get more of the good
nutrients in your diet eat
highly colored foods like
sweet potatoes, carrots,
cantaloupe, squash,
apricots, pumpkin,
mangos, and leafy green
vegetables like collard
greens, spinach, and kale.
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Tuesday
Wednesday
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Friday
The food that you eat is
made up of fat, protein,
fiber and carbohydrates.
These nutrients give you
energy and calories in your
diet.
People did not have
refrigerators until the
1920’s. Before that they
kept food cold by storing it
on windowsills, blocks of
ice, or even burying it in
the garden to keep it cool.
Vitamin E helps keep your
blood and skin healthy.
Foods that have a lot of
Vitamin E in them are
nuts, beans, and lots of
green vegetables.
The body gets its water
from three sources: from
drinks, from the water in
foods (especially fruits and
vegetables), and as a result
of reactions within the
body. It is recommended to
drink 6-8 glasses of water
per day.
Food should always be
enjoyable. But, if food is
not handled correctly
harmful bacteria can grow
and cause food poisoning.
Wash your hands
thoroughly before you
touch food, after going to
the bathroom, and after
touching pets.
Vitamin C helps your
teeth, gums and bones. It
also helps to heal your cuts
and bruises. You can find
lots of Vitamin C in
oranges, tomatoes,
broccoli, and melons.
Some people have allergic
reactions to food. Almost
75% of these reactions are
caused by either eggs,
peanuts, or milk.
Caffeine can make you very
awake, but too much is not
good for you. A 60 pound
child who drinks 2 soft
drinks in a day is getting
the same amount of
caffeine as a 175 pound
adult who drinks 8 cups of
coffee!
The yeast that is used as an
ingredient in the baking of
breads is actually a single
celled fungus.
The world record for
watermelon seed spitting is
held by Jack Dietz of
Chicago, who spit a seed a
distance of 66 feet and 11
inches!
In order for a product to be Folate is a nutrient very
Uglifruit is a fruit that
called “chocolate” it must important for growth and comes from Jamaica. It is a
contain chocolate liquor, kids often do not get
cross between a grapefruit
which is what gives it the enough of it. You could eat and a mandarin orange. It
bitter flavor and dark color. fortified breakfast cereal in is about the size of a small
So there is no such thing as the morning, breads, or
grapefruit and has an ugly
“white chocolate” even
green leafy vegetables
appearance.
though it comes from the throughout the day to make
cocoa plant because it does sure you get enough of this
not have the liquor added important nutrient.
to it.
Texas has 2 official state
It takes about 20 minutes
peppers: the jalapeno and for your brain to get the
the chiltepin. Both of
message that your body is
which are used in the
getting food and is full. So,
official state dish of Texas – slow down when your
Chili.
eating to give your brain a
chance to get the word
your full!
Lentils are a member of the Fat is found in plants and
pea family. They are grown in meat. The fat from
for there seeds, which are plants is called oil. Many
dried and used in soups
healthy oils come from
and stews. They are rich in olives, and seeds like
protein and carbohydrates sesame seeds. Your body
and are also a good source needs some fat but most
of calcium, phosphorous, people eat way too much so
iron and the B vitamins.
be careful!
Vitamin A is good for your The official state plant of
teeth and skin and gives
Texas is the prickly pear
you energy. You can find cactus which you can
Vitamin A in spinach, fruit, actually eat. It tastes similar
and milk.
to a tart green bean,
asparagus, or pepper.
Iron is a mineral that helps
you keep your blood
healthy. Good sources of
iron to eat every day
include red meat, eggs,
fortified breakfast cereals,
and beans.