Nutrition Resources
Resources
- Meals Matter Meals Matter offers recipes, personalized cookbooks, meal planning resources and individualized shopping lists, while taking into account your food preferences, health priorities and personal risk factors.
- Nutrition Explorations An interactive food pyramid, a kid kitchen with easy to make safe recipes, games and activities, and nutrition contests.
- Nourish Interactive Free online nutrition education resource for kids, with stimulating games, challenges, and puzzles that teach basic nutrition concepts.
- Lower Your Cholesterol to Prevent Heart Disease Meal plans, grocery lists, information on food labels, and hints for eating out to prevent heart disease.
- Rate Your Restaurant Diet How to cut unnecessary calories from restaurant menus.
- Nutrition Fact Label Training An interactive learning series to help you understand food labels, including info and quizzes on serving sizes, percent daily values, saturated fat, sodium, fiber and calcium.
- Nutrition Data Combine individual foods into recipes, get nutrition facts for your entire recipes, and save them all in one place.
- Rate Your Plate Test your balanced meal knowledge. Choose foods from various drop-down menus to create your virtual plate, then “rate your plate”.
- Fruits & Veggies Matter Learn about the benefits of different fruits and veggies, their portion sizes, and how to incorporate fruits and veggies into each of your meals.
- Glycemic Index The glycemic index (GI) is how carbohydrates are ranked; on a scale from 0-100 based on the extent to which they raise blood sugar levels after consumption. Research has shown that low GI diets improve both blood glucose and lipid levels in people with bo
- Carb Counter is a database you can use to find the carbohydrate content of what you eat.
- Pacific Science Center: Nutrition Café Nutrition games for kids, including a jeopardy style game, a food detective game, and meal composition analysis.
