Nutritional Food Labels

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 4. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group (6)
  2. 6. A unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram (plural) (8)
  3. 8. Nutrient in meat and beans that builds muscle (7)
  4. 9. A radioactive isotope that is used in a compound in order to trace the mechanism of a chemical (5)
  5. 10. Food and nutrients the body needs to grow (9)
  6. 12. Law enacted by a ___ body (11)
  7. 14. Sweet white crystals added to food (plural) (6)
  8. 15. A newspaper that is published every day (5)
  9. 16. Any of several elongated, threadlike cells (5)

Down

  1. 1. A metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram (plural) (5)
  2. 2. What we eat to get energy and grow (4)
  3. 3. A proportion in relation to a whole (10)
  4. 5. Food that is a component of a mixture in cooking (plural) (11)
  5. 7. A numerical quantity measured or assigned or computed (5)
  6. 11. The whole amount (5)
  7. 13. An individual quantity of food or drink taken as part of a meal (7)