food pyramid for kids

he "Others" category includes foods such as cakes, cookies, candy, soft drinks, fruit drinks, potato chips and donuts.

As long as you eat mostly meals and snacks from the Five Food Groups, a few "Others" foods are okay every day.

Foods in the "Others" category:

fats • oils • spreads • candy • cookies • cakes • chips and other salty snacks • condiments • soft drinks • coffee • tea

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food pyramid for kids

Stand up and take a step. You just used 54 muscles! Your

 muscles hold your bones together and make them move.

 Meat Group foods help build strong muscles.

 Foods in this group provide protein and iron.

Iron is important because it:

• carries oxygen to all parts of your body
• helps prevent infections and anemia that 
• can make you feel tired
• helps your body make energy to get you through busy days

Build muscles with these Meat Group foods:

beef • pork • chicken and turkey • fish • dried beans

 and peas • peanut butter • eggs • nuts

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food pyramid for kids

Did you know your body has 206 bones that are alive and growing?

 Believe it or not, you'll eventually have 32 permanent teeth!

 Milk Group foods provide calcium that helps build strong

 bones and teeth. They also provide other important nutrients,

 including protein, vitamin A, vitamin D, and B vitamins

.

Calcium helps:

• strengthen bones, which are growing stronger and longer
• stop bleeding if you get cut or bruised
• muscles contract and relax

Build strong bones with these foods in the Milk Group:

milk • flavored milk like strawberry, banana, chocolate • yogurt •

 cheese: string, cheddar, American and others • pudding 

• frozen yogurt

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Fruit Group foods provide vitamin C. Vitamin C helps our body heal cuts and bruises and fight infections!

Fruit Group foods also provide:

• Vitamin A, which helps us see in the dark and helps keep our skin healthy.
• Fiber, which helps us digest our food.
• Substances called "phytochemicals" (fight-o kem ick-kals) that help prevent diseases.

Some of the foods in the Fruit group are:

apples • oranges • bananas • pears • grapes • kiwi • berries: strawberries, blueberries, raspberries • melons: watermelon, cantaloupe, honeydew • pineapple • papaya

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s it easier for you to see in the dark or the daylight? For most

 people it's easier in the daylight! Foods in the Vegetable

 Group give us vitamin A that helps us see in the dark.

 VitaminA also helps to keep our skin healthy.

Vegetables also provide:

• Vitamin C, which helps heal cuts and bruises and
• fight infections.
• Fiber, which helps us digest our food.
• Substances called "phytochemicals" (fight-o kem ick-kals)
•  that help prevent diseases.

Some foods in the Vegetable Group are:

broccoli • cauliflower • corn • peas • green beans • lettuce

 • mushrooms • celery • carrots • white potatoes

 and sweet potatoes • juices made from vegetables:

 tomato juice, carrot juice

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