General Nutrients
Digestion & Metabolism
Proteins
Carbohydrates
Lipids
100
Nutrient that makes up 50-75% of the mammal.
What is Water
100
A reaction which builds molecules and requires energy.
What is Anabolism
100
The basic building unit of proteins
What is amino acids?
100
Primary carbohydrate found in the blood stream.
What is Glucose
100
This is the final result (molecule) of lipid catabolism.
What is fatty acids.
200
A nutrient the body cannot manufacture in sufficient amounts.
What is an essential nutrient?
200
This reaction breaks down molecules to produce energy.
What is catabolism
200
This bond holds individual amino acids together.
What is a peptide bond
200
This is the final form of carbohydrate catabolism - i.e. "simple sugars".
What is monosaccharides
200
This type of fat is liquid at room temperature due to the prescence of double bonds in it's structure.
What are unsaturated fats?
300
Carbohydrates, Fats, and Proteins.
What are the energy producing nutrients?
300
This organ secretes enzymes that are involved in the digestion of all of the energy nutrients.
What is the pancreas?
300
This unique element is found only in proteins.
What is Nitrogen
300
The storage form of carbohydrates or glucose.
What is Glycogen?
300
These fatty acids are formed when adding hydrogen at double bond sites of unsaturated fats.
What are trans fatty acids?
400
This is the term for energy measured in food and in the body.
What is kilocalories?
400
Finger-like projections on the inner surface of the small intestine.
What is villi?
400
Proteins function as what to help the breakdown of foods in the G.I. Tract?
What is enzymes?
400
Starch, glycogen, dietary fiber.
What are Complex Carbohydrates?
400
This removes cholesterol from cells and tissue and carries it away from the heart.
What is High Density Lipoprotein?
500
This non-nutrient food component in plants provides health benefits.
What is phytochemicals?
500
This is where the end products of digestion primarily occur in the G.I. tract.
What is the small intestine?
500
What is a food that supplies all the essential amino acids in sufficient quantity?
What is Complete protein?
500
The by-product of fat breakdown when used for glucose energy.
What are ketones?
500
Fish, walnuts, flax seeds.
What are good sources of Omega 3 fatty acids?
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