caribbean food groups
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Caribbean Food Groups. Keeping healthy, staying strong Getting started. Content Page. The six food group Why foods are placed into groups? Food groups and paired nutrient Importance of a healthy diet Benefits of eating healthy Do you want to test your knowledge? Additional Information. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Keeping healthy, staying strong
Getting started
Content PageThe six food group
Why foods are placed into groups?
Food groups and paired nutrient
Importance of a healthy diet
Benefits of eating healthy
Do you want to test your knowledge?
Additional Information
The six food groups are:StaplesFood from animal sourcesFats and oilsGreen leafy vegetablesFruitsLegumes
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Why are foods placed into groups?
Food is placed into groups based on the nutrient that they contain. Each food contains more than one nutrient but it is placed in the group that has the most dominant nutrient.
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Food groups and paired nutrient
Food groups Food nutrientsStapleFood from animal
sourcesVegetablesLegumesFruits Fats and oils
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CarbohydrateProteinVitamins and mineralsProteinWater, vitaminFat
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Importance of a healthy diet
Benefits of eating healthy foodsHealthy food gives our bodies the tools they need to:
build bones and muscles
repair and replace worn out cells
keep all systems working
keep us healthy.
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Staple
Cereals: Bread (from whole grain or enriched flour), wheat flour, corn (maize), corn-meal, dried cereals, macaroni, spaghetti, rice, cereal porridges. Starchy fruits, roots, tubers/ground provisions:Banana, plantain, breadfruit, yam, potato, dasheen, coco/ eddoe, cassava .
Starchy fruits, roots, tubers/ground provisions:Banana, plantain, breadfruit, yam, potato, dasheen, coco/ eddoe, cassava.
Staples are divided into two groups.
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Food from animal sources
Meat, poultry, fish (fresh, canned, pickled, dried), milk, cheese, yoghurt, egg, liver, heart, kidney, tripe (offal), trotters, feet, tail, head
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Fats and Oils
Cooking and salad oils, butter, margarine, shortening, ghee, coconut cream/milk, meat fat, nuts, avocado pear, Jamaican ackee.
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Green leafy vegetablesDark green leafy and
yellow vegetables:Callaloo/spinach, dasheen
leaves, cabbage bush, pakchoy, string beans, pumpkin, carrot.
Other vegetables: Squash, cho-cho, (christophene, chayote), cucumber, tomato, garden egg/aubergine
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Fruits
Mango, guava, citrus (orange, grapefruit, limes, tangerine), pineapple, West Indian cherry, pawpaw/papaya, golden apple/Jew/June plum, sugar apple/sweet sop.
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LegumesKidney beans, gungo/pigeon peas, black-eye peas, cow peas, other dried peas and beans, peanuts, cashew nuts, sesame seeds, pumpkin seeds.
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Test your knowledge
What are food groups?
List the six food groups?
Why are foods placed into groups?
How is the six food groups linked to the six food nutrients?
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Additional informationFor more information click on one of the links
below:
http://new.paho.org/cfni/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=379&Itemid=212
http://www.mamashealth.com/nutrition/
http://www.thecompletebear.com/MealPlanningwiththeBasicFoodGroups.php
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