Can You Pick the Healthier Food?

Very hard to answer unless we know the criteria being applied to rate the 'health' of each food. Does more healthy equal less fat, higher protein, more nutrients, less processed, lower glycemic index etc etc. Also, how can you compare pizza and peanut butter without specifying how the pizza is made? I've had conflicting advice from dieticians over the years, as each places an emphasis on which aspect they think is most important. Most recently had the most common sense dietician consult ever, and apparently this is the way they are moving in general. Which is - no specific food is off the table, make sure you eat a sensible mix of food groups and a sensible amount of calories. Feel like some ice cream - no problem. Just balance out the food groups and track what you are eating.

10/11 -- Fun but easy.

Re the steak v the baked potato, does the potato include the butter and sour cream? If so, I don't believe it's the healthier option.

David Colloby, even a glass of pure orange juice contains the juice of up to six oranges, making it high in sugar. Much better to eat an orange.

I know writers do their best, but I can tear apart this quiz--wine isn't healthy--there's nothing is healthy about alcohol, especially after 60 (I know about the flavonoids); both are high in fructose (sugar); beef cows, pigs, etc., are fed growth hormones, antibiotics, and the grains they eat contain pesticides; when they are taken to slaughter, they panic and adrenaline floods their systems. Most adults don't digest lactose well, so one of the alternative (soy, almond, oat, etc.) milks is better than cow's milk. White foods (bread, potatoes, rice) don't contain many vitamins or minerals--better to eat yams, whole grain breads, and brown rice). I wouldn't eat any of these foods (except eggs from my own chickens). Good display of the unhealthy American diet. I don't have a Ph.D. in nutrition (only a half of one due to circumstances beyond my control) and have studied nutrition for decades.

A couple of dubious answers ie; is it pue orange juice or the sweet stuff

11/11 -- I had to think about a few of them. I enjoyed this quiz.

Don't agree with most of these. Nutritional values in New Zealand are clearly different from the USA!

I am confused!!! Popcorn is more nutritious than granola and pork chops are more nutritious than granola! I also have to stop drinking so much orange juice and start drinking wine!! lol

horacefredrick, That wasn't on my test. Pork isn't healthier than peanut butter.

Rochelle , No, you didn't mess up- pork is not healthy. They agreed except they said pork chops are healthier than granola bars and I think they're wrong on that.

Actually it's one of the few answers that is correct. Mike Valsamy,

I did this knowing the answers would be mixed. As far as I'm concerned nutritionists are the worst for knowing about nutrition. All corn in USA and Canada is genetically modified. It is not better for you. Pork has large molecules which eventually punch holes in digestive membranes causing leaky gut syndrome. Just so much wrong with this.

Baked potato anytime. Mike Valsamy,

Didn't bother finishing as I do not agree with these "healthy" food choices. Popcorn is gmo...all corn in n. America is gmo ergo granola is the healthier one. That's just one example. I don't eat pork either too much of that creates leaky gut syndrome as the large molecules punch through the intestines over time. So much I do not agree with in here.