The document provides various interesting nutritional facts and information about foods and diet. Some key points include: lemons contain more sugar than strawberries; eating vitamin C foods like oranges with proteins helps the body absorb iron better; a balanced diet is important and shouldn't be too heavy on any one thing; and different types of sugars like glucose, fructose, sucrose, and lactose are found in different foods and have varying levels of sweetness.

1. Some Interesting
Nutritional Information
from the website, Fun
Food Facts

2. Lemons contain more sugar than
strawberries

3. Carrots Really Can Help You See In The
Dark

4. The first breakfast cereal ever
produced was Shredded Wheat

5. Half of the world's population live on a
staple diet of rice

6. When a source of Vitamin C (orange, lemon,
grapefruit, strawberry, tomato, potato, etc.) is
eaten with meat or cooked dry beans, the body
makes better use of the iron in the protein food.

7. A portion of the water you drink has
already been drunk by someone else,
maybe several times over

8. It Takes 3500 Calories To Make A
Pound Of Fat!

9. The Average Person Eats Almost
1500 Pounds Of Food A Year!

10. Balance your food choices - don't eat
too much of one thing

11. A calorie is a measure of heat energy - the
amount of heat needed to raise the temperature
of 1 liter of water 1oC. Calories in food become
energy in our bodies.

12. There are about 100,000 bacteria in
one litre of drinking water

13. Sometimes Frozen Fruits And
Vegetables Are More Nutritious
Than Fresh!

14. A Person With A Good Diet
• clear skin
• glossy hair
• sparkling eyes
• firm muscles
• straight posture
• proper weight
• bright smile
• alert
• fun-loving
• ready to get the most out of life

15. A Person With A Bad Diet
• pale or blotchy skin
• lifeless hair
• dark circles under dull eyes
• flabby muscles
• droopy posture
• too thin or fat
• pale gums, bad teeth
• tires quickly
• seems crabby or lazy
• drags through life

16. You're More Likely To Be Hungry If
You're Cold!

17. Glucose
(Dextrose, Grape Sugar, or Corn Sugar)
Somewhat less sweet than cane sugar and is
soluble in hot or cold water. Found in sweet
fruits such as grapes, berries, & oranges and in
some vegetables such as sweet corn & carrots.
It is prepared commercially as corn syrup.

18. Fructose
(Fruit Sugar). Highly soluble. It is much sweeter
than cane sugar and is found in honey, ripe
fruits, and some vegetables.

19. Sucrose
The table sugar with which we are familiar and is
found in cane or beet sugar, brown sugar,
molasses, & maple sugar. Many fruits & some
vegetables contain small amounts of sucrose.

20. Lactose
(Milk Sugar). Produced by mammals & the only
carbohydrate of animal origin of significance
in the diet. It is about 1/6 as sweet as sucrose
& dissolves poorly in cold water. The lactose in
milk varies from 2% to 8%.