What are the essential foodgroups?

SourChipmunk · 17 Aug 2009 at 17:27

As I learned it as a child, and very easy to remember:

Meat
Fruits & Vegetables
Breads & Cereals
Milk

It doesn't get much simpler than that. You can place any food into one of those 4 categories.

edit: looks like they added a new one: Fats, Oils, & Sweets. How dumb.

doofer · 17 Aug 2009 at 17:28

Raist said:
As I learned it as a child, and very easy to remember:

Meat
Fruits & Vegetables
Breads & Cereals
Milk

It doesn't get much simpler than that. You can place any food into one of those 4 categories.

What would Toffee come under then?

Tonyator · 17 Aug 2009 at 17:29

Should the last one be dairy....

neil3k · 17 Aug 2009 at 17:33

what about the whipped foodgroup

and the chocotastic food group

SourChipmunk · 17 Aug 2009 at 17:52

doofer said:
What would Toffee come under then?

Back then it didn't fall under a group, however the sugar could have fallen under a cane product which would have been breads and cereals. Sweets were non-standard, as were fats. They added them since I was a kid, though.

Tonyator said:
Should the last one be dairy....

Technically, but Milk was an easier way to remember it. It flowed. Remember, dairy comes from animal milk.

Globul · 17 Aug 2009 at 18:19

Chocolate, Green tea, fish, juice, water, cereal, dairy, veg, fruit

Thats mine 8D

durruti · 17 Aug 2009 at 18:21

Raist said:
As I learned it as a child, and very easy to remember:

Meat
Fruits & Vegetables
Breads & Cereals
Milk

It doesn't get much simpler than that. You can place any food into one of those 4 categories.

edit: looks like they added a new one: Fats, Oils, & Sweets. How dumb.

What on earth? :confused:

They are:

Starch
Fruit/veg
Meat, fish, eggs and beans.
Milk and dairy foods.
Foods containing fat and sugar.

randal · 17 Aug 2009 at 18:24

neil3k said:
what about the whipped foodgroup

and the chocotastic food group

pingwing · 17 Aug 2009 at 18:26

randal24 said:
<seagull flies into wall>

Hehe

Purple is a fruit

SourChipmunk · 17 Aug 2009 at 18:32

durruti said:
What on earth?

They are:

Starch
Fruit/veg
Meat, fish, eggs and beans.
Milk and dairy foods.
Foods containing fat and sugar.

Don't you argue with me, kiddo.

I said that's what I learned as a kid. Never had to relearn it since they came up with the new rules.

durruti · 17 Aug 2009 at 18:34

hm okay i'm sorry

Freefaller · 17 Aug 2009 at 18:44

Proteins
Complex Carbs
Essential Fatty Acids
Mono and polyunsaturated fats
Vitamins & minerals.

But as for actual food groups:

Vegetables (inc root vegetables and pulses)
Fruit
Red & White Meats inc Poultry (inc Eggs)
Fish
Dairy products (milk, butter etc...)
Starchy products (wholewheat pasta, rice, potatoes etc...)

wannabedamned · 17 Aug 2009 at 19:15

drunkenmaster said:
you don't need carbs.

If you eat no protein, you die, if you eat no fat, you die, if you drink no water, you die.

If you don't eat carbs, nothing at all happens to you whatsoever.

Who told you that?

Look up Ketones, And you'll find out why Carbs are Important.

SourChipmunk · 17 Aug 2009 at 20:23

Beer is the only real food group. One can survive on beer alone. (So I've been told by the Monks.)