Question

A balanced diet is a diet containing essential nutrients:

• A. in right proportions
• B. in high proportions
• C. in any proportions
• D. in equal proportions

Answer 1

The correct option is A in right proportions

$\bullet$ Food that supplies all the nutrients in right quantities or proper proportions is called a balanced diet.
$\bullet$ Excess consumption of nutrients can cause overnutrition and contrastingly, absorption of only one kind of nutrient can cause undernutrition.