Nutrition Word Search
This nutrition word search covers what is inside food and what the body does with it: protein, carbs and fats, fiber, vitamins and minerals such as calcium and iron, the calories on the label, and the food groups on MyPlate.
The first controlled trial in nutrition was run at sea. In 1747 James Lind, a Scottish naval surgeon on HMS Salisbury, split twelve sailors with scurvy into pairs and gave each pair a different remedy. The two given oranges and lemons were nearly well within a week. The British navy began handing out lemon juice in the 1790s, later switching to lime juice, but nobody knew why it worked until vitamin C was identified in the early 1930s.
The numbers on a package are newer. The Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1990 made the Nutrition Facts panel standard on packaged food in the United States, and it appeared on shelves in 1994. A food Calorie on that panel is really a kilocalorie, the heat needed to warm one kilogram of water by one degree Celsius. In 2011 the Department of Agriculture replaced its food pyramid with MyPlate, a dinner plate split into fruits, vegetables, grains and protein, with a cup of dairy on the side.
Free Nutrition Word Search Online Game
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Nutrition Word Search Printable Puzzles
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Puzzle Vocabulary Words
Below you can see all possible words that the topic Nutrition has.
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In Easy game you have to find up to 5 words, medium game can have up to 15 words and hard puzzle can have up to 23 words.
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- Amino Acids
- Antioxidant
- Appetite
- Balanced
- Calcium
- Calories
- Carbs
- Cholesterol
- Daily Value
- Dietitian
- Digestion
- Enzyme
- Fats
- Fiber
- Folate
- Food Groups
- Glucose
- Hydration
- Iron
- Label
- Lean Meat
- Legumes
- Magnesium
- Metabolism
- Minerals
- MyPlate
- Nutrients
- Omega
- Portion
- Potassium
- Protein
- Saturated
- Scurvy
- Serving
- Sodium
- Starch
- Trans Fat
- Vitamins
- Whole Grains
- Zinc