Necessary Nutrients
Carbs
Protein
Fats
Vitamins, Minerals
and Water
100
The substances found in food or drink that your body needs to be healthy, work and grow.


What are nutrients?

100

Carbohydrates turn into this when they enter your body.

What is sugar or what is glucose?

100

Proteins are made up of molecules called this.

What are amino acids?

100

This is another name for fat.

What are lipids?

100

60% of your body is made up of this.

What is water?

200

All the things you put into your body are this.

what are chemicals?

200

These three atoms make up carbohydrates.

What are carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen atoms?

200

Foods that have proteins that include all nine essential amino acids are called this.

What is a complete protein?

200

These are the molecules that make up fats.

What are fatty acids?

200

These types of vitamins are not stored in your body. 

What are water soluble vitamins?

300

Atoms join together to become new chemicals called this.

What are molecules?

300

Fruits, honey and sugar cane have this kind of carbohydrates.

What are simple carbohydrates?

300

This kind of protein is found in plant products, such as beans, nuts, and grams.

What is an incomplete protein?

300

These are the two essential fatty acids that your body cannot make.

What are omega-3 and omega 6 fatty acids?

300

A deficiency in this vitamin can cause a disease called rickets, which affects how your bones remodel and grow.

What is vitamin D?

400

Two hydrogen atoms, and one oxygen atom make up this molecule.

What is water?

400

These types of carbohydrates are made of molecules that are larger than those that make up simple carbohydrates.

What are complex carbohydrates?

400

Unlike carbohydrates and fats, the body cannot do this to proteins.

What is store?

400

These are the two basic kinds of fats.

What are saturated fats and unsaturated fats?

400

Minerals are usually found in these places.

What are earth/soil, rivers, lakes, streams, and oceans?

500

This is the science that explores how your body uses the food you eat.

What is nutrition?

500

Glucose can be compared to this, something that keeps you running.

What is a battery?

500

If you eat more protein than your body can use, the extra amino acids can be  converted into this.

What is fuel or other useful molecules?

500

This process takes unsaturated fats in chemically converts them into saturated fats, and is known to be extremely unhealthy.

What is hydrogenation?(or trans fats)

500

These are two of the minerals that you need most.

What are calcium, phosphate, magnesium, sodium, potassium, zinc, iron, copper, iodine, selenium, and chromium.

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