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Healthy Eating Food Groups

Help Kai plan a colourful lunchbox using the five food groups. Read the food clues, sort foods and explain your choices. There is more than one way to make a balanced meal.

Food group detectives

In the Australian Guide to Healthy Eating, the five food groups are vegetables and legumes/beans, fruit, grain (cereal) foods, lean meats and alternatives, and milk, yoghurt, cheese and/or alternatives. Water is a healthy drink, but it is not one of the five food groups.

1.Kai finds five lunchbox foods: carrot sticks, an apple, wholegrain crackers, a boiled egg and yoghurt. Match each food to its food group.

Carrot sticks
Apple
Wholegrain crackers
Boiled egg
Yoghurt

Fruit
Milk, yoghurt, cheese and/or alternatives
Lean meats and alternatives
Vegetables and legumes/beans
Grain (cereal) foods

2.Which choice best completes this lunchbox as a useful source of grain foods?

A small wholegrain roll
A second yoghurt
A handful of grapes
A boiled egg

3.True or false? Water is one of the five food groups. Explain what water is instead.

4.Choose the two foods that belong to the lean meats and alternatives group.

Lentils and fish
Rice and pasta
Milk and cheese
Pear and orange

5.Kai's wrap has chicken, lettuce and tomato in a wholemeal wrap. Name three food groups represented in the wrap.

6.A friend says, “If I eat only fruit, I have eaten from all five food groups.” Is the friend correct? Explain using one food group that fruit does not represent.

7.The school garden has beans, spinach and pumpkin. Which food group do these foods belong to? What is one reason vegetables and legumes are useful parts of meals?

8.Make one change to Kai's lunchbox—carrot sticks, apple, wholegrain crackers, boiled egg and water—to include a food from a different food group. Name the change and the group it adds.

9.Why is eating a variety of foods from the five food groups a sensible everyday choice? Give one reason.