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Nutrients are

Important substances you body needs to survive and stay healthy

Most nutrients we get from …

Food we eat

Carbohydrates….

Provide energy

Lipids are

Fats and oils and they provide energy

Proteins are used for

Growth and repair

Vitamins and minerals keep you

Keep you healthy

…. Is needed in all …

Water and body fluids

Fiber provides

Bulk to food to keep it moving through the gut

Fiber is not a ?

Nutrient

To remain healthy you must eat

A balanced diet

What is a balanced diet

Eating food containing the right nutrients and the correct amounts

What is our main source of energy

Carbohydrates

Where can carbohydrates be found

In sugary and fruity foods also in startchy food like bread

What are the 3 important jobs of lipids

1. Provide you with energy


2.keep you warm my providing a layer of installation under your skin


3.protect organs like your heart and kidneys from damage

What are proteins needed for?

To repair body tissue and make new cells for growth

Our immune systems muscles and organs are mostly made up of

Protein

Vitamins and minerals are

Essential substances for keeping you healthy

True or false We need large amounts of vitamins and mineral

False we only need small amounts

…. Are needed for us to grow develop properly and function normally

Vitamins and minerals

What is needed for good eyesight

Vitamin A

Vitamin … is needed to maintain healthy teeth and bones

D

What is a good source of vitamins and minerals?

Vegetables and fruits

These are made up of 70% water

Our cells

How do we loose body water?

Sweat urine feces and exhaling

How do we keep our cells healthy?

My constantly replacing the water we loose

How do we keep our cells healthy?

My constantly replacing the water we loose

How much water should you drink every day

Over a litre

How do we keep our cells healthy?

My constantly replacing the water we loose

How much water should you drink every day

Over a litre

Can you drink tea and other stuff that contain water to drink over a liter

Yes

What is fibre

A carbohydrate

What is fibre

A carbohydrate

What does eating fiber prevent

Constapation

How do we prepare food for testing

Crush the food using a pestle and mortar then add water and mix well

If the liquid in the water bath turns orange this means

The food contains lipids and fats like Farida

How do you test for protein

Add sodium hydroxide and copper sulfate

What color is copper sulfate

A pale blue

What color is sodium hydroxide

It’s color less

If the sodium hydroxide and copper sulfate solution turn purple then

The food contains protein

What problems do under weight people suffer from

Lack of energy


Often tired


Lack of vitamins and minerals

Obese people suffer from

Heart disease stroke diabetes and some cancers

What does vitamin A deficiency lead to

Night blindness

What does vitamin D deficiency lead to

Rickets / bendy bones

What is the job of the digestion system

To break down food

How do you test for startch

Add iodine to the food solution

Name in order the digestion process

Food is mixed with saliva and is chewed down into smaller bits



Then food passes down the essuphages or gullet down to the stomach where the food is mixed with enzymes and acids to break down the food into smaller molecules


Then digestive juices from the pancrease and liver are added in the small intestine



Small hair in the small intestine absorb the nutrients passing in the small intestine after the hair sticks to the nutrients the walls of the intestine absorb the nutrients and diffuse it into the blood


After wards the leaving waste is absorbed water passes back into the body


After the waste stores in the rectum iluntill it goes out the anus to the bathroom

What small hairs are on he walls of the small intestine

Villi

What vitamin does fiber make

Vitamin K

What are enzymes classified as

A catalysts they speed up the process without being used up

What enzyme breaks down carbs

Carbohydrase breaks carbs into sugar molecules

What is protein broken down into and by what

Protein is broken down into amino acids by protease

Lipase breaks down lipids and fatty stuff into glycerol

True or false

Where is bile made

In the liver

What does bile do

Break down lipids into smalle droplets

What are the 2 types of drugs

Medicinal and recreational

If you add iodine to a starchy what color does it change

Blue black

How do we test for lipids

Rub the food on filter paper

If filter paper turns transparent when a food is tuned on it this means

This mean the food contains lipids

What is another way to test for lipids

Add Ethanol to the solution if it turns foggy then it contains lipids

What color is iodine

Orange yellow

What color is ethanol

Color less

What color is benidects solution

Blue

How do you test for sugar

Add benidicts solution to the solution then but it in a how water bath