Food Pyramid
Contains eight divisions. From left to right on the pyramid are six food groups: • Grains, recommending that at least half of grains consumed be as whole grains • Vegetables, emphasizing dark green vegetables, orange vegetables, and dry beans and peas • Fruits, emphasizing variety and deemphasizing fruit juices • Oils, recommending fish, nut, and vegetables sources • Milk,, a category that includes fluid milk and many other milk-based products • Meat and beans, emphasizing low-fat and lean meats such as fish as well as more beans, peas, nuts, and seeds
*RDA & RENI Recommended Dietary Allowance
(RDA) - is the information of nutrient allowance for the maintenance of good health. A tool for assessing a dietary intake of the population group. This emphasize the amount of foods or diet.
RENI - Recommended Energy Nutrient Intake - A new standard replacing RDA, emphasizing on recommending on the nutrients rather than food or diet. - This tool serve as a guide for designing nutrition and health intervention towards an improvement of the health of the Filipinos.
Food Exchange List - A classification or grouping of common foods in terms of equivalent amounts of Carbohydrates, Protein, Fat and Calories - The word exchange refers to the fact that each item on a particular list in the portion listed may be interchanged with any other food item on the same list. An exchange can be explained as a substitution, choice, or serving
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Introduction to Basic Food
Non-FictionThis book is introducing all about basic foods and its other application
