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Carbohydrates
Fats
Protein
Vitamins, Minerals, and Water
Potpourri
100
Carbohydrates are the body's main source of this.
What is energy?
100
Fats also go by this term.
What are lipids?
100
Proteins are needed to repair and build new these.
What are cells?
100
Examples include calcium, phosphorus, potassium, sodium, and magnesium.
What are minerals?
100
The study of the nutrients in food and how they nourish the body.
What is nutrition?
200
Carbohydrates help the body use protein and this other nutrient efficiently.
What is fat?
200
While fats are solid at room temperature and often come from animals, these lipids are liquid at room temperature.
What are oils?
200
Proteins provide the building blocks that the body uses for tissues, enzymes, hormones, and these.
What are muscles?
200
Chemical compounds found in food that are needed for regular metabolic processes, such as digestion and the absorption of nutrients.
What are vitamins?
200
Pasta, rice, tortillas, cereal, baked potatoes, honey, and table sugar are all good sources of this nutrient.
What are carbohydrates?
300
This type of carbohydrates contain one or two sugars.
What are simple carbohydrates?
300
The three types of fatty acids are saturated, monounsaturated, and this.
What is polyunsaturated?
300
These chemical compounds (building blocks) supply nitrogen for growth and maintenance, maintain fluids, keep the body from getting to acidic or basic, and act as transporters.
What are amino acids?
300
Around 55 to 65 percent of the human body is this by weight.
What is water?
300
In nutrition, this is the unit of measurement for energy.
What is a kilocalorie (or calorie)?
400
These types of carbohydrates provide a long-lasting source of energy and take longer to digest.
What are complex carbohydrates?
400
The chemical process that causes unsaturated fats to spoil.
What is oxidation?
400
The number of essential amino acids found in foods.
What is nine?
400
The human body can only live around this long without water.
What is a few days?
400
The components of food that are needed for the body to function.
What are nutrients?
500
A chemical cousin to complex carbohydrates that cannot be digested for energy needs.
What is fiber?
500
A white, waxy substance that helps the body carry out its many processes. Made in the liver, and found only in animal foods.
What is cholesterol?
500
The class of proteins that contain all the essential amino acids in the right amount.
What are complete proteins?
500
Besides lubricating joints and cushioning body tissues, helping with the digestion, absorption, and transportation of nutrients, distributing heat throughout the body and allowing heat to be released through the skin by evaporation, water helps eliminate this through the kidneys, colon, and lungs.
What is waste?
500
The total number of amino acids.
What is twenty?