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Foods 2 chapter 2

Review of nutrients

Question	Answer
A unit used in nutrition to measure the energy value of food	Calorie
Protein that contains all nine essential amino acids in adequate amounts	Complete protein
The body's chief source of energy	carbohydrate
The amount of energy the human body needs just to stay alive and carry on vital life processes	Basal metabolism
The study of how the body uses food	Nutrition
The process by which hydrogen is chemically added to an unsaturated fat	hydrogenation
Inorganic substances that become part of the bones, tissues, and body fluids.	Minerals
A fat like substance found in every cell in the body	cholesterol
The process that pushes food through the digestive tract	peristalis
An indigestible material in plant foods that provides bulk in the diet	fiber
A nutrient is a chemical substance in food that helps maintain the body	True
Fats are an important energy sources	True
Meats are an excellent source of carbohydrates	False
An overweight person may be malnourished	True
Adults need more protein per pound of body weight than children because they are larger	False
Starch is the most abundant carbohydrate in the body	True
Cholesterol occurs only in foods of plant origin	False
The foods a teenage girl eats today may affect her pregnancy in later years	True
The body does not store fat-soluble vitamins	False
If a diet does not supply enough fats and carbohydrates, the body will use proteins for energy before using them to support growth and maintenance	True
Your body's water intake comes from the liquids you drink, the foods you eat and metabolism	True
Iron is needed to prevent osteoporosis in old age	False
Food is pushed through the digestive tract by villi	True
Calcium, phosphorus, and potassium are known as trace elements	False
When the amount of energy you obtain from foods is greater than the amount of energy you expand, your body weight increases	True
A fatty acid that has as many hydrogen atoms as it can hold is called	Saturated fatty acid
Proteins are provided by meat, dairy products, and beans	True
An amino acid is a carbohydrate	False
Proteins are made up of small units called	amino acids
A, D, E, K vitamins are fat-soluble	True
These nutrients work as a team	sodium, potassium, chlorine
milk and milk products are the best dietary sources of	Calcium
A deficiency of which vitamin can cause scurvy	Vitamin C
This minerals is found in the greatest amount in the human body	Calcium
Over half of the iron in the human body is found in the	blood

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