Five portions of fruit and vegetables a day

Fill in the gaps with the words in the table below. 

answers: 1-h 2-d 3-f 4-j 5-a 6-k 7-c 8-g 9-l 10-e 11-i 12-b

If you hear “one of your 5 a day” in the UK, the topic is 1 ……………….. or veg. Even food labels include portion sizes as part of a programme based on advice from the World Health Organization, which 2 ……………….. eating a minimum of 400g of fruit and vegetables a day to lower the risk of serious health problems, 3 ……………….. heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and obesity.

Most people believe that they eat 4 ……………….. fruit and vegetables, but studies show that we usually don’t. Many people have no more than one or two portions a day. Potatoes don’t 5 ……………….. because they mainly contribute starch to the diet. Modern freezing methods preserve the healthy nutrients, so frozen fruit and veg can be better than fresh produce that has been left out at room 6 ……………….. for a long time. Tinned vegetables and fruit, plus 7 ……………….. fruit such as raisins, also count towards your five a day.

Fruit and vegetables do not all contain the same amount of healthy 8 ………………... Listed below is an approximate calculation of the amount needed to count as one portion.

1 tomato, pepper or a large onion

a quarter of a cauliflower or cucumber

1 bowl of lettuce

3 heaped tablespoons 9 ……………….. any vegetable, for example, peas, carrots, sweetcorn

10 ……………….. an avocado

1 apple, pear, banana, orange, nectarine or peach

1 slice of melon

half a grapefruit

2 plums

1 glass (150ml) of pure fruit juice (no matter how 11 ……………….. glasses you drink a day, it only counts as one portion)

3 heaped tablespoons of beans (again, no matter how 12 ……………….. you eat, it will only count as one portion)

source: Netdoctor, NHS

topic – téma

portion size – adag mérete

to lower – csökkenteni

diabetes – cukorbetegség

obesity – elhízás

to believe – hinni

starch – keményítő

diet – étrend

to preserve – megőrizni

nutrients – tápanyagok

tinned – konzerv

raisin – mazsola

amount – mennyiség

to count – számítani

heaped tablespoon – púpozott evőkanál

no matter – nem számít, hogy

Főnevek, amelyeket zöldségekkel és gyümölcsökkel tudunk használni:

1. Fill in the gaps in the sentences.

1. Would you like some grapes? We’ve just bought them at the vegetable …….… .

2. Don’t eat that fruit, it’s not …….… yet. It will give you a stomach-ache.

3. Poor Tom! He fell off the tree when he was …….… cherries.

4. My mother grows some potatoes and peppers on her vegetable …….… .

5. Jane loves …….… fruits like kiwi and papaya.

6. These …….… apples taste much better than the one that you can buy in the shops.

7. Tears were coming from her eyes as she was chopping the …….… .

8. We had a lot of plums in our garden this year so my grandma …….… some for the winter.

9. He thinks that chemicals are bad for his health so he prefers to buy …….… fruits and vegetables.

10. I broke my tooth when I was eating cherries and bit on a …….… .

2. Can you translate these Hungarian phrases into English?

1. nyers piros retek

2. friss ropogós karfiol

3. ízletes fagyasztott szilva

4. bio déligyümölcsök

5. rohadt banánhéj

6. savanyított uborka

7. otthon termelt szezonális zöldségek

8. egzotikus gyümölcs konzervek

9. édes lédús vörösáfonya

10. szárított ananász és datolya

Key: 

1. market

2. ripe

3. picking

4. patch

5. exotic

6. home-grown

7. onions

8. preserved / canned

9. organic

10. stone

1. raw red radish

2. fresh crisp cauliflower

3. delicious frozen plums

4. organic tropical/citrus fruits

5. rotten banana peel

6. pickled cucumber

7. home-grown seasonal vegetables

8. tinned/canned exotic fruit

9. sweet juicy cranberry

10. dried pineapples and dates