Gruits and Vegtables Flashcards
Healthy Eating Plate
image of a plate to advertise nutrition
Vegetarian
no meat
Vegan
No animal produces
What a food pyramids purpose
To help navigate how much of what to eat based on what diet you have (No restrictions, vegan)
Fruit
A part of a
plant that contains one or
more matured ovaries
plants with seeds, (Beans,
what is a Vegetables
Derived from various parts of the plant
no seeds
have roots, leaves, stems
Culinary term
Generally eaten with main course
Why should we care about Cultivars?
Different cultivars have different properties and composition
what type is Corn?
fruit, vegetable, whole grain
Glutamate
amino acid
Definition of cultivar
Any variety produced by horticultural or
agricultural techniques
Not normally found in natural populations
Is Vitamin B water soluble?
yes
What is vitamin B useful for?
cell metabolism, helps enzyme functions
Synthesis of red blood cells
Transports O2/nutrients
What is Vitamin C soluble in?
water
What does vitamin C do?
Tissue growth and repair
Fat soluble vitamins
A, E, K
What does Vitamin A help with?
Immune system
What does Vitamin E help with?
antioxidant
Immune function
What does Vitamin K help with?
protein synthesis
Blood clots
what is a Phytonutrients? An list 2 important ones.
pigments in fruits & vegetables
Polyphenolics: concentrated in the leaf tissue of plants.
Ex. strawberry, grape
Carotenoids: produce red, orange, and yellow color in fruits and vegetables.
Ex. carrot, tomato
Quality factors of vegetables
Pigments
Texture
Color
Nutrition
Flavor
what is Glutamate?
amino acid
True of false?
Amino acids play a very important role in flavors
True
Types of dry fruits
Legumes: “bean pod”
splitting along two seams (beans)
Nuts: Large, one-seeded fruit
with very hard pericarp (hazelnuts)
Types of freshly fruits
1.Berries - Entire pericarp is fleshy, may be
one or many seeded (ex. tomato)
- Hesperidium - Berry with a leathery rind
and parchment-like partitions between sections (orange) - Pepo - Berry with a hard, thick rind; typical
fruit of the gourd family (pumpkin) - Drupe - Fleshy fruit with hard inner layer
surrounding the seed (cherries) - Pomes - Ovary or core surrounded by
edible, fleshy receptacle tissue that is
really not part of the pericarp (apples)
