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NUTRI-QUIZ QUESTIONS
1. It makes up most of your blood and help carry oxygen and food to the cells in
your body. It helps your body get rid of wastes through urine and sweat.

Answer: Water

2. What food nutrient is our body’s main source of energy?

Answer: Carbohydrates

3. They are very important for building strong bones.

Answer: Calcium

4. It is a degenerative brain disorder that causes a gradual and irreversible decline

in memory and eventually, the ability to care for oneself.

Answer: Alzheimer’s disease

5. It is a dietary-deficiency disease resulting from inadequate intake of niacin.

Answer: Pellagra

6. An irregularity in the rhythm of the heartbeat is referred to as what?

Answer: Arrhythmia
7. It is a water-soluble vitamin found in fruits and leafy vegetables and is also
called as ascorbic acid.

Answer: Vitamin C

8. A prolonged deficiency of Vitamin C in the diet causes what disease?

Answer: Scurvy

9. What is the theme for this year’s Nutrition Month Celebration?

Answer: Gutom at Malnutrisyon, Sama-sama nating Wakasan

10. What is the protein food found in milk?

Answer: Casein

11. What is the cheapest source of Vitamin D?

Answer: Sunlight/Morning Sunshine

12. What is the scientific name of guava?

Answer: Psidium guajava

13. The package of simple ready-to-cook foods designed as a supplement to the

usual diet of the child is called what?

Answer: Nutri-Pak

14. What severe form of child malnutrition is caused by inadequate intake of

protein?

Answer: Kwashiorkor

15. It refers to the food that a person usually consumes.

Answer: Diet

16. This vitamin is extracted from liver which is essential for red blood cell
formation.

Answer: Vitamin B12/Cyanocobalamin

17. It is a relapse or recurrence of an illness or disease.

Answer: Palindromia

18. It is the scientific regulation of diet in treating disease.

Answer: Dietotherapy

19. Any substance that nourishes a person to enable him to live and grow.

Answer: Food

20. It is a condition characterized by sleepiness, indifference, and lack of energy.

Answer: Lethargy

21. ____________ is a metabolism of fat.

Answer: Lipometabolism
22. _____________ is caused by lack of calories or inadequate amount of food.

Answer: Marasmus

23. It is a type of cancer of the blood characterized by an abnormal increase of

immature white blood cells called “blasts“.
Answer: Leukemia or Leukaemia
24. The slowness of heart rate is referred to as what?

Answer: Bradycardia

25. The first secretion from the mother’s breast is rich in antibodies and minerals.
This is produced after giving birth and before the production of true milk. It
provides newborns with immunity to infections.

Answer: Colostrum

26. These are the “building blocks” of protein which is an integral part of all body
tissues especially muscle.

Answer: Amino Acids

27. It is the enlargement of the thyroid gland appearing as a swelling of the front of
the neck.

Answer: Goiter

28. It helps prevent goiter.

Answer: Iodine

29. This refers to the ease with which nutrients, particularly minerals, can be
absorbed from the digestive tract and utilized by the body.

Answer: Bio-availability/Bioavailability

30. ___________ is a term to describe minerals that are attached to other

molecules such as proteins or carbohydrates and used to improve the bio-
availability of minerals.

Answer: Chelates
31. These are the building blocks of fats and oils.

Answer: Fatty Acids

32. It refers to the study of measurement of the physical characteristics of the body
such as height and weight.

Answer: Anthropometry

33. It is the pressure of the blood on the walls of the arteries.

Answer: Blood Pressure

34. _________ is the rate of energy used for metabolism when the body is at
complete rest.

Answer: Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR)

35. It is an eating disorder characterized by binge eating, sometimes followed by

vomiting or purging.

Answer: Bulimia

36. What is the natural stimulant found in coffee, tea, and chocolate?

Answer: Caffeine

37. It is the unit of heat and the measurement of energy.

Answer: Calorie

38. ___________ is a monosaccharide, sometimes known as blood sugar.

Answer: Glucose

39. It is the main carbohydrate in milk.

Answer: Lactose

40. These refers to the substances obtained from food and used in the body to
provide energy and structural materials and to regulate growth, maintenance and
repair of the body’s tissue.

Answer: Nutrients

41. __________ is a chronic disease characterized by excessively high body fat in

relation to lean body tissue.

Answer: Obesity

42. It is an excess of body weight that includes fat, bone, and muscle.

Answer: Overweight
43. What is the general term for the people who exclude meat, poultry, fish, or
other animal-derived foods from their diets?

Answer: Vegetarians

44. These are organic, essential nutrients required only in small amounts.

Answer: Vitamins
45. ________ is a guideline for the amount of energy and selected nutrients
considered adequate to meet the nutrient needs of practically all healthy people.

Answer: Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDA)

46. It is the breaking down of foodstuffs in the body into a form that can be
absorbed and used or excreted.

Answer: Digestion

47. It is the state of being healthy and fit, gaining all nutrients.

Answer: Wellness

48. It is a lack of adequate fluids in the body.

Answer: Dehydration

49. It is a deficiency in blood where iron level intake is too low.

Answer: Anemia or Anaemia

50. These are foods that are supplemented with essential nutrients in quantities
greater than already present.

Answer: Fortified Foods

51. How do you call a healthcare professional with training in nutrition and diet
planning?

Answer: Dietician/Dietitian

52. _______ is the science that deals with foods and their effects on health.

Answer: Nutrition

53. ________ is a drug or remedy used for treating illness.

Answer: Medicine

54. It is a lack of healthy foods in the diet, or an excessive intake of unhealthy

foods, leading to physical harm.

Answer: Malnutrition

55. What is the best way to determine the nutritional status of an individual?

Answer: Weighing
56. What substance are nails made of?

Answer: Keratin

57. Dairy products are generally made from what common liquid?

Answer: Milk

58. He is a Polish-American chemist considered as the “Father of Vitamin

Therapy” and was the first to coin the term “vitamin” as vital factors in the diet.

Answer: Casimir Funk

59. It is the only sugar manufactured my mammals.

Answer: Lactose

60. Axerophthol is the same as what vitamin?

Answer: Vitamin A
61. It is a malignant growth of cells.

Answer: Cancer

62. Cardiopathy is known to be as what sort of disease?

Answer: Heart Disease

63. It is a disease caused by a deficiency of Vitamin D.

Answer: Rickets

64. What vitamin is a viosterol?

Answer: Vitamin D2

65. What nutrient is needed as the main structural component of the body?

Answer: Protein

66. What vitamin helps in blood clotting and is known as naphthoquinone?

Answer: Vitamin K
67. What vitamin is needed for a healthy immune system and strong connective
tissue?

Answer: Vitamin C/Ascorbic Acid

68. It is also known as tocopherol and is necessary for normal reproduction.

Answer: Vitamin E

69. What is the cheapest source of iodine in our household?

Answer: Iodized salt

70. What fruit is an alligator pear?

Answer: Avocado

71. Who was the Philippine President who declared July as a month of nutrition?

Answer: Ferdinand Marcos

72. This is often marketed as “superfruits” being rich in vitamins A and C.

Answer: Guava