Healthy eating quiz - Is your grub good for you?

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Is your grub good for you?

Is your diet doing you any favours? Test your nutritional knowledge right here.

1. Which of the following contains half your recommended daily amount (RDA) of salt?

Enough Marmite to cover two slices of toast
A serving of McDonald's pancakes and sausage
Four Quorn sausages
Three packets of Walkers Ready Salted crisps

2. Which of these fruit combos would make up your full five a day fruit and veg portions?

Two kiwis, two plums, five carrots and one apple
One apple, one pear, one banana and two glasses of fruit juice
One large slice of pineapple, one apple, six tinned apricot halves, a tablespoon of raisins and a glass of fruit juice
Two satsumas, one nectarine, one orange and one pear

3. Cabbage is good for...

Protecting against breast cancer
Curing constipation
Healthy, shiny hair
Insomnia

4. What's the best food for fatigue?

Bananas
Chocolate
Vegetable soup
Raspberries

5. If you're suffering from depression, which oil might help?

Olive
Sunflower
Linseed
Sesame seed

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