The healthy feeding habits & food additives

Question 1

Healthy feeding habits

Answer 1

Healthy eating is the pratice that result from choosing adequate diet in the corrt proportion and eating of food according to season.

Question 2

healthy feeding practice include the following

Answer 2

Eating adequate diet and balanced diet

eating plenty of fruits and vegetable

avoid excessive eating of cabohydrates

dont just eat any food you find

eat little or no meat

dont eat in an uhygenic environment

washing hands before and after eating

Question 3

The effects of unhealthy feeding practice

Answer 3

Obesity
diabetes
kwashiorkor
eye disorder
stomach ache 
marasmus
ulcer
rickets
cholera
fever

Question 4

Importance of healhy feeding habits

Answer 4

It prevents you from getting disease

It makes you look better

It gives you energy

Question 5

Food additives

Answer 5

These are substances deliberatly added to food to iimprove the apperance, odour, texture, flavour, nutrition, value, aroma, taste and to preserrve the food.
There are 2 groups of food additives: natural, artifical

Question 6

Natural additives

Answer 6

These are used directly from plant without subjecting them to any individual processing they include ginger, onion , garlic etc

Question 7

Artifical additives

Answer 7

They are extractive from plants and produce industially after some processing they are chemically modified to suit specfic objective e.g cinnamon.

Question 8

uses of food additives

Answer 8

They are used to improve the state of food.

They add to the nutritive value of food.

They preserve food

They improve the apperance ,odour, and texture of food.

They aslo improve the flavour and aroma of food.