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Special Dietary Needs and Therapeutic Diets
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20 CXC CSEC Food and Nutrition questions on Special Dietary Needs and Therapeutic Diets, each with instant feedback and a full examiner-style mark scheme.

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Question 1 · 1 mark · Difficulty 1/3

Mrs. Williams, a 58-year-old diabetic patient from Kingston, Jamaica, visits a dietitian for meal planning advice. Which of the following foods should be RESTRICTED in her diet?

  1. Steamed callaloo
  2. White rice and flour products
  3. Grilled fish with vegetables
  4. Fresh garden salad
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✓ Answer: BWhite rice and flour products
Award 1 mark for identifying refined carbohydrates as foods to restrict for diabetics. A is incorrect — callaloo is a low glycaemic index vegetable suitable for diabetics. C is incorrect — grilled fish with vegetables is a balanced, low-GI meal appropriate for diabetic diets. D is incorrect — fresh salads are encouraged as they are low in carbohydrates and high in fibre.
Question 2 · 1 mark · Difficulty 1/3

A pregnant woman in her third trimester visits a health centre in St. Lucia. The nurse recommends she increase her intake of which nutrient to prevent neural tube defects in her baby?

  1. Vitamin C
  2. Folic acid
  3. Vitamin D
  4. Thiamine
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✓ Answer: BFolic acid
Award 1 mark for identifying folic acid as essential for preventing neural tube defects. A is incorrect — Vitamin C supports immune function but does not prevent neural tube defects. C is incorrect — Vitamin D is important for bone health, not neural tube development. D is incorrect — Thiamine supports energy metabolism but is not linked to neural tube defect prevention.
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CXC CSEC Food and Nutrition: Special Dietary Needs and Therapeutic Diets FAQ

How many CXC CSEC Food and Nutrition questions on Special Dietary Needs and Therapeutic Diets are there on Kramizo?
Kramizo currently has 20 exam-board-aligned practice questions on Special Dietary Needs and Therapeutic Diets for CXC CSEC Food and Nutrition, with new questions added every week. Each question gives you instant feedback and a full examiner-style mark scheme that tells you exactly what would earn marks on a real CXC paper. The questions span the full difficulty range — from straightforward recall (level 1) right up to multi-step reasoning and evaluation (level 3) — so the bank works for first-pass revision and final exam-week stress testing alike.
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Are the Special Dietary Needs and Therapeutic Diets questions aligned to the official CXC CSEC Food and Nutrition syllabus?
Every question is written against the published CXC CSEC Food and Nutrition specification, including the exact command words (state, describe, explain, calculate, evaluate, etc.), mark allocations, and difficulty tier you'd see on a real CXC paper. Explanations are written in the style of official examiner mark schemes — they tell you what is being awarded marks and why distractors are wrong, not just whether you got it right. The bank is continually refined to match the latest syllabus updates from CXC.
How is Special Dietary Needs and Therapeutic Diets typically tested on CXC CSEC Food and Nutrition papers?
Special Dietary Needs and Therapeutic Diets appears across multiple question types on real CXC CSEC Food and Nutrition papers — most commonly as multiple-choice questions in the objective section, structured short-answer questions in the main paper, and occasionally as part of an extended response. Kramizo's practice bank reflects that mix: 4-option MCQs, true/false statements, fill-in-the-blank key terms, multi-select questions, and ordering questions. Working through the bank gives you exposure to every question style examiners actually use.

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