Nutrition Facts
Educating kids about proper nutrition is the first step in putting them on the right path. These fun nutrition facts can help kids make good choices most of the time!
- One can of soda contains 10 teaspoons of sugar.
- “Nutrition” is derived from the Latin “nutrie,” meaning feed, nurse, preserve, or support.
- The average American adult drinks 500 cans of soda every year.
One large (53g) Grade A egg contains 6g of protein and only 70 calories.
- Salt is the most common seasoning mentioned in the Bible.
- Temperature can affect appetite. A cold person is more likely to eat more food.
- It takes 3500 calories to make a pound.
- A person will usually swallow around 250 times during dinner.
- An adult can starve to death within 8-12 weeks.
- Americans collectively consume approximately 900 billion calories each day.
- Due to poor nutrition as children, many Greeks and Romans were shorter than people today.
- Eggs contain the highest quality food protein known.
- While the practice of cannibalism does give the eaters some high-quality protein, human flesh is no more beneficial than most animal meat.
- A person will eat an average of 35 tons of food in his or her lifetime, or 1,500 pounds of food a year.
- The English are sometimes called “limeys” because British sailors would eat limes to stave off scurvy.
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