Carbohydrates

Question 1

What are the three types of carbohydrates?

Answer 1

Starch, Fibre, Sugar

Question 2

Which one doesn’t give you energy?

Answer 2

Fibre

Question 3

What are monosaccharides?

Answer 3

The most simpletest form of sugar and most basic unit of carbohydrates.

Question 4

What are disaccharides?

Answer 4

The sugar formed when two monosaccharides are joined

Question 5

What are polysaccharides?

Answer 5

Long chains of carbohydrate molecules made up of monosaccharides

Question 6

How much energy does 1g of charbohydrates give you?

Answer 6

17kj

Question 7

What are the functions of carbohydrates?

Answer 7

They give you energy and necessary for the regulation of nerve tissue and is the only source of energy for the brain and the fibre helps with constipation

Question 8

What is the deficiency of carbohydrates?

Answer 8

Marasmus

Question 9

What are the symptoms of marasmus?

Answer 9

Tissue and muscle wasting, water retention (oedema), dry skin and loose folds of skin and irritable and hungry.

Question 10

How do you develop diabetes?

Answer 10

Your pancreases makes insulin which helps use the energy sugar and starch gives you but if you overuse your energy by eating inconsistently or to many sweets your pancreas stops working making you diabetic (Type 2)

Question 11

What is the glycemic index?

Answer 11

It is the scale which we measure the purity of glucose.