Digestion & Absorption
The enzyme in your saliva that breaks down starch.
What is amylase?
The amount of calories in 1 gram of carbohydrates.
What is 4 calories?
Blood glucose is regulated by these 2 hormones secreted by the pancreas.
What are insulin and glucagon?
In order to give foods a longer shelf life, food producers do this to unsaturated fatty acids.
What is hydrogenate?
These are the basic building blocks of protein.
What are amino acids?
The 3 sections of your small intestines.
What are the duodenum, jejunum, and ileum?
Approximate size of 3 oz of protein.
What is a deck of cards?
Constipation, diabetes, and heart disease may all be improved by eating this.
What is a fiber rich diet?
A fatty acid chain that is missing hydrogens with in its chains.
What is an unsaturated fat?
This is a type of protein which protects the body from viruses, bacteria and other disease agents.
What is an antibody?
This is made in the liver and concentrated and stored in the gallbladder.
What is bile?
Food labels must list ingredients in this order.
What is descending order of predominance by weight?
Disaccharides are sucrose, maltose, and this polymer made up of glucose and galactose molecules.
What is lactose?
These lipids can not be synthesized in the body in sufficient amounts.
What are linoleic and linolenic fatty acids?
The body uses amino aids for energy when these 2 nutrients are running low.
What are glucose and fatty acids?
Contains water, hydrochloric acid, pepsin, and lipase.
What is gastric juice?
These are the 6 classes of nutrients.
What are water, carbohydrates, protein, fats, vitamins, and minerals?
These types of foods contain significant amounts of carbohydrates.
What are fruit, vegetables, grains, legumes, and dairy?
To lower cardiovascular disease risk, people should decrease consumption of these types of fat.
What are saturated and trans fats?
The end products of protein metabolism are excreted by this organ.
What are the kidneys?
The 2 main systems for nutrient transport throughout the body.
Vascular (blood) and lymphatic systems.
The dietary reference intakes (DRI) include tolerable upper limits, adequate intakes, and this set of values which reflects the level of each nutrient that meets the needs of practically all healthy people.
What are the recommended dietary allowances (RDA)?
This hormone acts as a key to move glucose from the blood into the cells.
What is insulin?
Virtually unlimited amounts of body fuel (energy) can be stored in this type of tissue.
What is adipose tissue?
The recommended protein intake represents this percentage of daily energy intake.
What is 10-35%?