Check Your Nutrition: Vitamins, Minerals, and Fiber

Vitamins, minerals, and fiber are needed for healthy eyes, skin, hair, blood, and digestion. They are also needed to keep your immune system strong, which will help you fight colds, the flu, and other diseases.

 

Take our quiz to see if you are getting enough vitamins, minerals, and fiber!

1. About how many servings of fruits and vegetables do you eat each day?

One serving equals any of the following:

1 medium piece of fruit (apples, pears, bananas, and oranges)

½ cup fresh, cooked, or canned fruit

¼ cup dried fruit (like raisins)

¾ cup fruit or vegetable juice

1 cup raw leafy vegetables (like lettuce or spinach)

½ cup cooked, canned, or fresh vegetables

I'm lucky if I eat one.

A few

I get 5-a-day almost every day.

 

2. How often do you eat whole grain cereal (click here for a list of cereals made of whole grains)?

Never or hardly ever—I need marshmallows in my cereal!

Only when we're out of my favorite cereal.

About once a week

A few times a week

I can't start my day without it!

 

3. How often do you eat beans, legumes, nuts, pumpkin seeds, or sunflower seeds?

Never or hardly ever

Only when someone sneaks them into my food...

About once a week

A few times a week

Chickpeas, black beans, walnuts, almonds—I can't get enough!

 

4. How often do you eat whole grain bread or whole grains like wheat, corn, oats, barley, and brown rice?

Never or hardly ever—I'm not really into whole grains.

Probably a few times a week, but I don't go out of my way to eat them...

I know they're good for me, so I eat whole grains once every day.

Twice a day most days

I love whole grains! I eat them at least 3 times every day.

 

5. Do you take a multivitamin?

Nope.

Only when I remember; about once or twice a week.

About half of the time

Most days

Every day, because I'm supposed to!

   

 

 

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