The document provides information about the major food groups - grains, vegetables, fruits, dairy, and proteins - and includes recommended daily servings for each group. It also lists examples of foods that fall into each group and provides some interesting facts about specific foods. The purpose is to raise awareness about healthy eating and the importance of consuming a variety of foods from each major food group every day.

1. The Farmer Grows A Rainbow Taylor Thornton A Look At Dietary Awareness

2. Food groups

3. Grains Wheats, Rice, Pasta, Oatmeal Eat at least 6 oz. a day. A slice of bread, or a cup of cereal is about 1 oz. How many sandwiches would you need to eat to get your daily serving or grains? What else would be a good dinner to have to get your daily grain servings?

4. Vegetables Corn, Broccoli, Lettuce, Carrots Eat 2 ½ cups a day. Orange veggies like carrots are good for your eye sight because they contain a lot of vitamin A. Dark green veggies are most full of good vitamins.

5. Veggie Facts One bushel of corn can sweeten 400 cans of soda. Pumpkins used to be used to cure freckles. Avocados are poisonous to birds. The longest carrot ever was 17 feet long. Onions make you cry because of sulfuric compounds on the inside. Ancient Greeks awarded sport event winners with stalks of celery.

6. Fruits Apples, Bananas, Oranges, Strawberries, Cherries Eat 2 cups every day. Fruit juices do not always have enough fruit juice in them to satisfy your daily amount. Smoothies give you a healthy source of fruits and even dairy.

7. Fruit Facts Apples are made of 25% air, which is why they can float. Bananas are the worlds largest herb. Orange trees can produce fruit for 100 years. Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave. Don’t try this at home. Eating your eight servings of Fruit and veggies a day can reduce your chance of stroke or heart attack by 30%.

8. Dairy Got Milk? Milk, Cheese, Yogurt, Ice Cream Eat or drink 3 cups every day. Fat-free is the best for your diet. If you cannot drink lactose, you can buy lactose-free milk or soy milk. Even tasty Ice Cream is a good source of dairy, It just contains a lot of sugars that are not great for a healthy diet. Milk Give you calcium that helps make your bones strong.

9. Proteins: Meats And Beans Chicken, Beef, Ham, Split Peas, Nuts Eat 5 ½ oz. every day. Baked and boiled meat is the best for you, compared to fried foods, like McDonalds chicken nuggets. Peas, and Nuts are a good source of protein and do not taste bad either.

10. Protein!!! 4oz. of meat reduces to 3oz. once cooked. Fathers day is the biggest beef consuming day of they year. Never refreeze meat, it raises the rancidity level. Never eat any raw meat, cooking kills many toxins. Meat grinders and cutting boards should be cleaned thoroughly after each use, bacteria will stay and contaminate. Beans contain 22% protein, more than meat and eggs. Kidney beans are nutritionally the best for us to eat.

12. What Groups Do These Belong To?

16. Draw a picture of your favorite food. And tell me why it is your favorite food. If you can tell me what food group it is a part of!!