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Nutrition and Food Groups

Help a community sports team plan a tasty, nourishing kai table. Use the information card and food-group guide, then solve the planning challenges. Foods can fit more than one group; choose the best fit for each question.

Team Kai: Quick Guide

New Zealand’s food-and-drink guidance encourages a variety of vegetables and fruit, grain foods (mostly wholegrain), milk and milk products or suitable alternatives, and lean protein foods such as beans, eggs, fish, chicken and nuts. Include small amounts of unsaturated oils and spreads. Water is a good everyday drink. Needs differ between people, and no single food makes a diet healthy or unhealthy.

Plan the Kai Table

Read the guide above. Give a reason for your choices where asked; more than one sensible answer may be possible.

1.The team wants a grain food that is mostly wholegrain. Which is the best choice?
  • White rice
  • Wholegrain bread
  • Lollies
  • Butter
2.Which pair are both protein foods from the guide?
  • Eggs and beans
  • Apples and carrots
  • Yoghurt and milk
  • Rice and bread
3.Match each food to its best-fit group in the guide.
  • Kūmara
  • Oats
  • Chickpeas
  • Yoghurt
  • Grain food
  • Milk product
  • Protein food
  • Vegetable
4.True or false: A balanced eating pattern can include foods from different groups across meals and snacks; every single meal does not need to contain every group.
TrueFalse
5.A teammate chooses water rather than a sugary drink after practice. Give one reason water is a useful everyday drink.
6.Talia’s snack is an apple and a small handful of unsalted nuts. Identify one food group represented by the apple and one represented by the nuts.
7.The kai table already has wholegrain wraps and chicken. Suggest one food from a different group to add, and name its group.
8.A student says, “Fat is always bad, so we should avoid all fats.” Use the quick guide to correct this claim.
9.Create a practical kai-table meal containing a vegetable or fruit, a grain food, and a protein food. Name your three foods and label each group.
10.Explain one way sharing kai at a team gathering could support hauora beyond physical health.

3 printable pages

  • Nutrition and Food Groups, page 1 of 3: Team Kai: Quick Guide, Plan the Kai Table

    Page 1

  • Nutrition and Food Groups, page 2 of 3: 3. Match each food to its best-fit group in the guide.

    Page 2

  • Nutrition and Food Groups, page 3 of 3: 9. Create a practical kai-table meal containing a vegetable or fruit, a grain food, and a…

    Page 3

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