The Food groups

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 4. Eater of fruits and grains and nuts (10)
  2. 6. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light (7)
  3. 8. Nutrient in meat and beans that builds muscle (7)
  4. 11. Solid homogeneous inorganic substances occurring in nature having a definite chemical composition (7)
  5. 13. Usually large hard-shelled seed (plural) (4)

Down

  1. 1. Baked food made from flour, used for sandwiches (5)
  2. 2. Animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective (3)
  3. 3. White drink that comes from cows (4)
  4. 4. Any of a group of organic substances essential in small quantities to normal metabolism (plural) (8)
  5. 5. The liquid part that can be extracted from plant or animal tissue by squeezing or cooking (5)
  6. 7. Greasy substance in food and body tissue (plural) (4)
  7. 8. A domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl (7)
  8. 9. Any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae used for food (plural) (5)
  9. 10. Slippery liquid used for cooking and fuel (3)
  10. 11. Animal flesh eaten as food (4)
  11. 12. A bluish-white lustrous metallic element (4)