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Canada's Food Guide

Index Canada's Food Guide

Canada's Food Guide is a nutrition guide produced by Health Canada. [1]

42 relations: Antioxidant, B vitamins, Beta-Carotene, Cancer, Carbohydrate, Carcinogen, Cardiovascular disease, Cheese, Corn oil, Cream, Dietary fiber, Flavonoid, Food group, Fruit, Grain, Health Canada, Income taxes in Canada, Kefir, Lentil, Linseed oil, List of nutrition guides, Magnesium, Meat, Milk, Nina Teicholz, Nut (fruit), Olive oil, Peanut oil, Phytochemical, Protein, Radical (chemistry), Selenium, Soybean, Soybean oil, Stroke, Sunflower oil, Vegetable, Vitamin C, Vitamin D, Water, Yogurt, Zinc.

Antioxidant

Antioxidants are molecules that inhibit the oxidation of other molecules.

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B vitamins

B vitamins are a class of water-soluble vitamins that play important roles in cell metabolism.

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Beta-Carotene

β-Carotene is an organic, strongly colored red-orange pigment abundant in plants and fruits.

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Cancer

Cancer is a group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body.

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Carbohydrate

A carbohydrate is a biomolecule consisting of carbon (C), hydrogen (H) and oxygen (O) atoms, usually with a hydrogen–oxygen atom ratio of 2:1 (as in water); in other words, with the empirical formula (where m may be different from n).

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Carcinogen

A carcinogen is any substance, radionuclide, or radiation that promotes carcinogenesis, the formation of cancer.

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Cardiovascular disease

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a class of diseases that involve the heart or blood vessels.

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Cheese

Cheese is a dairy product derived from milk that is produced in a wide range of flavors, textures, and forms by coagulation of the milk protein casein.

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Corn oil

Corn oil (maize oil) is oil extracted from the germ of corn (maize).

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Cream

Cream is a dairy product composed of the higher-butterfat layer skimmed from the top of milk before homogenization.

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Dietary fiber

Dietary fiber or roughage is the indigestible portion of food derived from plants.

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Flavonoid

Flavonoids (or bioflavonoids) (from the Latin word flavus meaning yellow, their color in nature) are a class of plant and fungus secondary metabolites.

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Food group

A food group is a collection of foods that share similar nutritional properties or biological classifications.

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Fruit

In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants (also known as angiosperms) formed from the ovary after flowering.

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Grain

A grain is a small, hard, dry seed, with or without an attached hull or fruit layer, harvested for human or animal consumption.

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Health Canada

Health Canada (Santé Canada) is the department of the government of Canada with responsibility for national public health.

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Income taxes in Canada

Income taxes in Canada constitute the majority of the annual revenues of the Government of Canada, and of the governments of the Provinces of Canada.

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Kefir

Kefir or kephir, alternatively milk kefir or búlgaros, is a fermented milk drink that originated in the Caucasus Mountains made with kefir "grains", a yeast/bacterial fermentation starter.

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Lentil

The lentil (Lens culinaris or Lens esculenta) is an edible pulse.

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Linseed oil

Linseed oil, also known as flaxseed oil or flax oil, is a colourless to yellowish oil obtained from the dried, ripened seeds of the flax plant (Linum usitatissimum).

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List of nutrition guides

This is a list of nutrition guides.

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Magnesium

Magnesium is a chemical element with symbol Mg and atomic number 12.

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Meat

Meat is animal flesh that is eaten as food.

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Milk

Milk is a white liquid produced by the mammary glands of mammals.

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Nina Teicholz

Nina Teicholz is a journalist who became an advocate opposed to the idea that saturated fat is unhealthy and should be minimized in the American diet.

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Nut (fruit)

A nut is a fruit composed of an inedible hard shell and a seed, which is generally edible.

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Olive oil

Olive oil is a liquid fat obtained from olives (the fruit of Olea europaea; family Oleaceae), a traditional tree crop of the Mediterranean Basin.

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Peanut oil

Peanut oil, also known as groundnut oil or arachis oil, is a mild-tasting vegetable oil derived from peanuts.

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Phytochemical

Phytochemicals are chemical compounds produced by plants, generally to help them thrive or thwart competitors, predators, or pathogens.

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Protein

Proteins are large biomolecules, or macromolecules, consisting of one or more long chains of amino acid residues.

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Radical (chemistry)

In chemistry, a radical (more precisely, a free radical) is an atom, molecule, or ion that has an unpaired valence electron.

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Selenium

Selenium is a chemical element with symbol Se and atomic number 34.

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Soybean

The soybean (Glycine max), or soya bean, is a species of legume native to East Asia, widely grown for its edible bean, which has numerous uses.

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Soybean oil

Soybean oil is a vegetable oil extracted from the seeds of the soybean (Glycine max).

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Stroke

A stroke is a medical condition in which poor blood flow to the brain results in cell death.

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Sunflower oil

Sunflower oil is the non-volatile oil pressed from the seeds of sunflower (Helianthus annuus).

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Vegetable

Vegetables are parts of plants that are consumed by humans as food as part of a meal.

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Vitamin C

Vitamin C, also known as ascorbic acid and L-ascorbic acid, is a vitamin found in food and used as a dietary supplement.

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Vitamin D

Vitamin D is a group of fat-soluble secosteroids responsible for increasing intestinal absorption of calcium, magnesium, and phosphate, and multiple other biological effects.

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Water

Water is a transparent, tasteless, odorless, and nearly colorless chemical substance that is the main constituent of Earth's streams, lakes, and oceans, and the fluids of most living organisms.

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Yogurt

Yogurt, yoghurt, or yoghourt (or; from yoğurt; other spellings listed below) is a food produced by bacterial fermentation of milk.

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Zinc

Zinc is a chemical element with symbol Zn and atomic number 30.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada's_Food_Guide

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