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Kids' Games from Nutrition Explorations

Kids' Games from Nutrition Explorations
Welcome to Fuel Up to Play 60 — the new home of all your favorite games and lessons from Nutrition Explorations! Here, you can still play your favorite games, AND you can learn more about Fuel Up to Play 60. Join the program and see how some of your favorite NFL players are working with the National Dairy Council to help you make your school an even healthier place! Little D's Nutrition Expedition® Games Little D's Nutrition Expedition® nutrition program is designed for lower elementary students. Help Little D collect as many foods as he can on his way to the picnic! Arianna's Nutrition Expedition™ Games Arianna's Nutrition Expedition™ nutrition program is designed for upper elementary students. Go on a global adventure to find ingredients for combination foods! Other Nutrition Games These games are a fun way for kids to learn about the Five Food Groups and the benefits of eating healthy meals — especially breakfast — and experiment with some winning combinations of foods!

About Us On June 2, 2011, First Lady Michelle Obama and USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack released the federal government’s new food icon, MyPlate, to serve as a reminder to help consumers make healthier food choices. MyPlate is a new generation icon with the intent to prompt consumers to think about building a healthy plate at meal times and to seek more information to help them do that by going to ChooseMyPlate.gov. The new MyPlate icon emphasizes the fruit, vegetable, grains, protein foods, and dairy groups. ChooseMyPlate.gov provides practical information to individuals, health professionals, nutrition educators, and the food industry to help consumers build healthier diets with resources and tools for dietary assessment, nutrition education, and other user-friendly nutrition information. MyPlate, MiPlato, and ChooseMyPlate.gov were developed by and are maintained by the USDA Center for Nutrition Policy & Promotion (CNPP). The Center's core projects to support its objectives are the following:

What Are Grains? - Food Groups - ChooseMyPlate.gov - USDA Any food made from wheat, rice, oats, cornmeal, barley or another cereal grain is a grain product. Bread, pasta, oatmeal, breakfast cereals, tortillas, and grits are examples of grain products. Grains are divided into 2 subgroups, Whole Grains and Refined Grains. Whole grains contain the entire grain kernel ― the bran, germ, and endosperm. Examples include: whole-wheat flour bulgur (cracked wheat) oatmeal whole cornmeal brown rice Refined grains have been milled, a process that removes the bran and germ. Some examples of refined grain products are: white flour de-germed cornmeal white bread white rice Most refined grains are enriched.

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