High quality foods for protein
Function of Protein on Body
Amino acids
100

Rounded body and small and easily breaks

Egg

100

Helps with the _______

Immune system

100

Molecules used by all living things to make proteins

Amino acid

200

Was originally a bird and it lays egg

Chicken

200

Helps ____ the body tissues

Repair

200

The only amino acids that our body can make 

Nonessential amino acids

300

Legumes related to peas, clover and alfalfa and is produced from a plant

Soybean

300

Helps your body with __________

Structural framework

300

The ones our body can’t make so we need to get it by eating foods

Essential amino acids

400

Sleek, streamlined bodies that typically change colour throughout their lifetimes and is a type of fish 

Salmon

400

Maintain the _______________

Proper pH and fluid balance

400

Essential when in times of illness and stress.

Conditional amino acids
500

 It is made by curdling fresh soya milk, pressing it into a solid block and then cooling it

Tofu

500

Allows your body to ___ your food into ___ and coordinates bodily function

Convert, energy

500

Which amino acid is rare?

Selenocysteine (Sec) and pyrrolysine (Pyl)