Guides in Selecting Nutritious Food

1. Guides in Selecting
Nutritious Food

2. Food groups and the food pyramid
are guides to help you choose the right
and amounts of food to eat.

3. Nutrition experts have grouped
and identified foods as go, glow, and
grow foods.

4. 1. Energy- giving food or go food. These are
the foods that give the body energy for work
and play.
Examples: rice, bread, oatmeal, root crops such
as potato, sweet potato (kamote), cassava, taro

5. 2. Body- building food or grow food. These
are the foods that make children grow and help
build strong muscles and bones.
Examples: meat, poultry, fish, eggs, milk,
seafood, legumes, beans

6. 3. Regulating food or glow food. These foods
increase the body resistance to diseases and
infections.
Examples: green leafy vegetables such as
malunggay, saluyot, kangkong, camote tops;
yellow vegetables such as carrots, squash; fresh
fruits and juice.

7. Malnutrition is the unhealthy
condition that results from not eating
enough food, especially healthy food.

8. Underweight Child
(malnourished)
Healthy Child Overweight Child
(malnourished)
Lack of food, thin
child, poor, and eats
only rice with soy
sauce and instant
noodles
Eats a balanced meal
of fish or meat,
vegetables, and fruits
Eats too much food,
especially fatty foods,
such as processed
meats, fast food, and
carbonated drinks