Nutrition IQ test

Thanks once again to prevention.com for a great informative time waster! lol yay!

Here's a Nutrition IQ test - enjoy!

i only got 13/19, but of the ones i got wrong, most were stuff i don't eat at all (the fast-food burger question, the breakfast question, the sports drink question, etc). 

Well, only ten out of nineteen. 

I only got 10/19 as well.

9/19 - epic failure!!  Learned a lot from that little quiz!

Most of the questions either had nothing to do with nutrition or were overly vague, questions like 'what's better, local or organic'? (totally depends on their definition of 'better'), 'what's healthier...?' (depends on what else is in your diet and what your dietary needs are) and 'is X a good substitute for Y?' (depends on what your definition of 'good' is).

10/19.  But ditto on floggingsully's take - what does local vs organic have to do with knowing about nutrition?  Also, I'm a vegetarian and don't care about which ground meat is "better" and don't eat much prepared stuff, and those are mostly the ones I got wrong.

But I did learn about sweet potatoes vs. bananas in terms of potassium, so that was good to know.

"local" is better than "organic" because it's fresher.  nothing vague about that.  i thought most of the questions were pretty clear.

well. I scored 9/19. ha ha I'm a loser. Oh well. I learned that sweet potatoes are pretty good food for potassium  and didn't know that before.

Original Post by pgeorgian:

"local" is better than "organic" because it's fresher.  nothing vague about that.  i thought most of the questions were pretty clear.

 But organic is 'better' than local because it uses less pesticides.

only if it's equally fresh. 

i agree that that question is subjective, but the others (all 18) are perfectly clear.

Original Post by pgeorgian:

"local" is better than "organic" because it's fresher.  nothing vague about that.  i thought most of the questions were pretty clear.

Local might mean fresher, but couldn't it have, say, pesticides, whereas the organic presumably wouldn't?

Local could also be organic, but the farmer can't afford to get the "organic" labeling.

it's a nutrition quiz, not a pesticide quiz.  and obviously "both" is preferable, but it was an either-or question.

Original Post by pgeorgian:

i agree that that question is subjective, but the others (all 18) are perfectly clear.

Which ground meat makes the healthiest, low-fat burger? What does 'healthy' mean? What criteria is used to rank how 'healthy' something is? What if the 'healthiest' burger isn't the one with the least fat? 

If you must have chips, which of these is the most nutritious? What does 'most nutritious' mean? the one with the largest amount of vitamins? the one with the most different vitamins? If one kind of chip has lots of vitamins X, Y and Z but you already get lost of those, and another chip only has vitamin S and you're deficient in S would the second type be more nutritious for you, but less nutritious for someone who isn't deficient in Vitamin S?

Calcium is key to building bones, but which of these dairy foods is NOT a good source? What does 'good source' mean? How much calcium does something need before it's a 'good source'?

Which of these swaps is worth making? How do you define a swap as being 'worth making'? Could it be 'worth it' for one person but not for another?

Drinking Vitamin Water is a good substitute for taking a daily multivitamin. What does 'good substitute' mean? They have the same amount of all vitamins? Vitamin water has 90% of the vitamins as a multivitamin (and which type of multivitamin are they basing this on?)? 75% as many? At what point is the substitue no longer 'good'?

A sports drink makes for a good preworkout energy boost. What constitutes a 'good' energy boost? a 5% increase in energy? 10%? 25%? 90%?

And speaking of fruits and veggies, does fresh offer more vitamins than frozen and canned? How 'fresh' is 'fresh'? right off the vine? within a day of being on the vine? How 'fresh' were the frozen/canned veggies when they were frozen/canned?

You know you need to cut your sugar intake to lose weight, fight wrinkles, and stay energized, but do you know which of these foods has added sugar? Which brands are they talking about? I'm sure some brands of each have added sugar, and some don't.  And who says that you need to cut sugar to loss weight? And if all you have to do is cut sugar, why would you care about whether or not the sugar was added?

So, of the 19 questions, the 8 above are overly vague, and 6 deal specifically with caloric content and not with nutritional value, plus the one about organic vs local.  That leaves 4 decent nutritional questions left. 4/19 isn't even good in baseball.

You sucked the fun right out of this thread.

trhawley- lol I know what you mean. 

I got 15 out of 19.

14, and I thought the questions were perfectly clear.  And that the rotting organic strawberries from 1000miles away are much better for me than the tasty fresh ones from the farm down the way. *rolls eyes*

Original Post by thermal:

14, and I thought the questions were perfectly clear.  And that the rotting organic strawberries from 1000miles away are much better for me than the tasty fresh ones from the farm down the way. *rolls eyes*

^^^5

11/19 Ah well...

9/19   *sniffs*