Chapter13- Started In The Kirchen Flashcards
Yield
The number of average servings the recipe makes.
Recipe
A recipe is a set of instructions for preparing a specific food.
Time-work schedule
A written plan that lists times for doing specific tasks to prepare a meal or food product
Dovetail
To overlap task to use your time more wisely
Nutrient
A chemical substance in food that help maintain the body
Nutrition
The study of how your body uses the nutrients in the foods you eat
Malnutrition
Is a lack of the right proportions of nutrients over an extended period.
Deficiency disease
An illness caused by the lack of a sufficient amount of a nutrient
Dietary supplements
Purified nutrients that are manufactured or extracted from natural sources
Photochemicals
Compounds that come from plants that are active in the human body.
Fortified foods
Foods to which nutrients are added in amounts greater then what would naturally occur in the food
Carbohydrates
The body’s chief source of energy
Glucose
The form of sugar carried in the bloodstream for energy use throughout the body
Fiber
Is a form of complex from plants that humans cannot digest
Fats
Important energy sources
Fatty acids
Chemical chains that contain carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen atoms.
Hydrogenation
Adds hydrogen atoms to unsaturated fatty acids in liquid oils
Trans fatty acids
fatty acids with odd molecular shapes
Dietary reference intakes DRIs
Estimated nutrient intake levels used for planning and evaluating the diets of healthy people
Estimated average requirement EAR
The nutrient intake value is estimated to meet the needs of half the healthy people in a group
Recommended dietary allowance RDA
Average daily dietary intake level meets the nutrient needs of nearly all healthy people in a group
Adequate intake AI
Recommended nutrient intake value is set for nutrients for which mo RDA can be determined