Unit $$73$$: Processed Food, Nutritional Value, and Language Notes

This flashcard set covers the science of processed versus whole foods, food labeling requirements, and introductory notes on language and grammar as presented in the lecture transcript.

Processed Food

Foods usually packaged in boxes or cans that are processed repeatedly to be edible and are not found in their natural state.

Whole Food

Healthy, unprocessed natural foods mostly found on the outside edge of the grocery store, including vegetables, fruit, eggs, meat, and other single ingredient foods.

Ingredient List Order

The sequence on a food package where ingredients are listed according to amount, from highest to lowest.

Fillers

Cheap ingredients such as water, fats, and sugar added to processed foods to replace nutrients lost during processing and dilute the food.

Processing Steps

Actions involving additives, artificial flavoring, and chemical ingredients; the more steps a food goes through, the fewer nutrients it contains.

Best before date

An indication on food packaging used to convey consumption timing messages to the consumer.

Grocery Store Layout Strategy

A health-focused shopping approach to stick to the outside edge of the store to find natural, unprocessed foods.

Nutrition Facts Table

Information on packages that conveys serving size, calories, total fat, cholesterol, sodium, sugar, dietary fiber, protein, carbohydrates, vitamins, and minerals.

Ingredient Recognition Rule

A guideline stating that if an ingredient list is long or contains items you do not recognize or have in your kitchen, the food is likely highly processed.

Rhyme

A figure of speech or poetic element that makes a poem easier to process and determine.

Grammar Instruction

The use of parts of speech within a poem to help students learn grammar more easily in a classroom or language environment.