Posted April 6, 2011
Recently Eating Well magazine featured “Power Food Pairs” — foods that, when combined, become nutritional juggernauts. Take our quiz:
1. Adding sauteed onions and garlic to whole grains boosts the absorption of what two minerals?
a) Calcium and magnesium
b) Iron and zinc
c) Iodine and potassium
2. Everyone knows iron’s function is to hasten oxygen toward the body’s cells, but what does zinc do?
a) Boosts immunity to illness
b) Helps repair wounds
c) Both a and b
3. Another food pairing is “beans and greens.” What happens when you combine eating green vegetables with beans?
a) The vitamin C in the greens helps you absorb the iron in the beans
b) The calcium in the greens is boosted by the protein in the beans
c) The level of manganese, especially in broccoli, rises threefold because of the iron in beans
4. Eating greens with “nonheme” iron is important because absorption is difficult on its own. Which is an example of a “nonheme” iron food source?
a) fish
b) tofu
c) turkey
5. According to the journal Free Radical Biology and Medicine, people who ate several servings of tomatoes mixed with sunflower or olive oil increased lycopene levels. Lycopene has been shown to reduce the risk of what?
a) breast cancer
b) kidney failure
c) gout
ANSWERS: 1: a; 2: c; 3: a; 4: b; 5: a
Source: www.eatingwell.com
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