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
73. It is an agency of the Philippine government under the Department of Health responsible
for creating a conducive policy environment for national and local nutrition planning,
implementation, monitoring and evaluation, and surveillance using state-of the art
technology and approaches.
Answer: National Nutrition Council (NNC)
74. It is a medical condition in which the eye fails to produce tears caused by a deficiency in
vitamin A.
Answer: Xerophthalmia
75. He is referred to as the “Father of Medicine”.
Answer: Hippocrates
76. _______ is a thiamine-deficiency disease.
Answer: Beriberi
77. What Presidential Decree, known as the “Nutrition Act of the Philippines” which created
the National Nutrition Council (NNC) as the highest policy-making on nutrition, was
promulgated on 1974?
Answer: P.D. 491
78. What Executive Order, which named the Department of Health as the chair of the NNC?
Answer: Executive Order No. 472
79. What is the process of removing harmful pathogens from various types of food.
Answer: Pasteurization/Pasteurisation
80. It protects the child from measles and is given only once as early as nine months.
Answer: Measles Vaccine
81. It protects the unborn child from the tetanus and is given to the mother twice.
Answer: Tetanus Toxoid
82. It is the current vaccine for tuberculosis.
Answer: Bacillus Calmette Guerin (BCG)
83. What is the substance found in colostrum that fights against infection and creates
antibodies that stimulates immunity?
Answer: Immunoglobulin