What is the Food Pyramid?What is the Food Pyramid?The food pyramid sorts different foods into groups. The food pyramid sorts different foods into groups.

GrainsGrains

Bread Pasta Oatmeal Rice

The orange food group represents:

VegetablesVegetables

The green food group represents:

Any vegetable or 100% vegetable juice counts as a member of the vegetable group.

Broccoli Carrots Corn Tomatoes

FruitsFruits

The red food group represents:

Any fruit or 100% fruit juice counts as part of the fruit group.

Apples Blueberries Grapes Oranges

MilkMilk

The blue food group represents:

All fluid milk products and many foods made from milk are a part of this food group.

White Milk Chocolate Milk Cheddar Cheese Cottage Cheese

Meat and BeansMeat and Beans

The purple food group represents:

All foods made from meat, poultry, fish, dry beans or peas, eggs, nuts, and seeds are considered part of this group.

Eggs Chicken Beans Shrimp

Click on the food that belongs in the grain group.

Correct!Oatmeal is a grain.

Incorrect. Try Again.

Click on the food that belongs in the Vegetable group.

Correct!Corn is a Vegetable!

Click on the food that belongs in the Fruit group.

Correct!Oranges are a Fruit!

Click on the food that belongs in the Milk group.

Correct!Cheese is in the Milk group!

Correct!Shrimp is in the

Meat and Bean group!

Congratulations! You are finished.

Click here to print off your

coloring worksheet.

http://teamnutrition.usda.gov/resources/mpk_coloring.pdf

Grade Level Content Expectations:Health Education, Grade Two

Strand I: Nutrition and Physical Activity

Standard I: Core Concepts

1.2 Classify foods into the food groups.

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