Vegetables & Fruit Quiz

Try our interactive quiz to find out more about how vegetables & fruit can improve your health!


Click on the letter that you believe to be the answer:

1. The greatest food safety risk with vegetables and fruit is:

A

Consuming wax coatings on turnips and cucumbers

B

Consuming pesticide residues on strawberries and red peppers

C

Bacterial contamination from raw meat or poultry onto fresh, uncooked vegetables and fruit
     

2. Women who may become pregnant are urged to eat the B-vitamin folic acid, to help prevent birth defects in their unborn children. Good sources of folic acid are

A

Apple juice and white bread

B

Orange juice and spinach

C

"Sunny Delight" beverage and "fruit leathers"
     

3. The best way to get your "5 to 10 a day" servings of fruits and vegetables is

A

To eat a wide variety of different vegetables and fruit each day

B

To drink as much fruit juice as you possibly can

C

To avoid meat and eat only vegetables and fruit
     

4. Which of these would provide you with at least one (1) "serving" of vegetables & fruit?

A

The vegetables in a stir-fry

B

The fruit in a fruit-bottom yogurt

C

The carrots in a carrot muffin
     

5. The healthiest vegetables & fruits are

A

Fresh from the produce section

B

Frozen or canned

C

Both of the above
   

6. Getting rid of the peel and using special "produce washes" are necessay in order to clean vegetables and fruit properly

A

True

B

False