Final Review Flashcards
Proteins
Nutrients that help build, repair and maintain body tissue also source of energy
Fat
Concentrated source of energy
Minerals
Non living substance that helps the body work properly
Water
Essentially to life makes up most of your body weight
Nutrient deficiency
Severe nutrient shortage makes bones Easier to break
Insoluble fibre
Can not be dissolved in water and just adds bulk
Soluble fibre
Dissolves in water like oatmeal may reduce blood cholesterol levels
Dietary fibre
Only comes plant material does not provide energy is a carbohydrate
Amino acids
Are protein made of chains of chemical building blocks your body can all but 9 of the 22 the 9 are called essential amino acids and can be found in foods that u eat
Essentially fatty acids
Fats promote health skin normal cell growth carry vitamin A D E K
Saturated fats
Bad cholesterol or LDL
Ex meat poultry skin whole milk coconut oil palm oil and palm kernel oil
Polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fats
Good fats lower LDL and raise HDL
Ex vegetables oil peanut oil avocados soybeans oil olive oil
Carbohydrates
Bodies main source of energy one nutrient is dietary fibre
Serotonin
Found in comfort foods like bread and pasta
Food bank
Where u can get food if you need it
Ascorbic acid
Another name for vitamin C
Osteoporosis
When your bones become brittle and break
Phytochemicals
A disease fighting nutrient found in plants
Chyme
A substance in your stomach process of food being churned
Hemoglobin
It regulates the blood pressure and is how oxygen gets taken from place to place
Villi
Is the lining of the small intestine it has billions of finger like projections takes in
Portal vein
Where the nutrients are carried
When glucose combined with oxygen to produce energy
Oxidation
Anemia
When your body does not have enough iron
Fortification
When nutrients is added to something
Colostrum
Found in a mothers milk and has nutrients that fight diseases and infection
Hemophelia
When your blood does not clot
Basal metabolism
The minimum amount of energy for basic life processes
Yoyo diets
Loose weight and gain it back
Basal metabolic rate
The amount to support the body at its lowest point
Nutrition aide
A person who plans to help people choose food that has a budget and is still healthy
Body mass index
To figure out how much fat is on your body
Fad diets
Ignoring good nutrition and healthy eating
Nutrition claim
When companies claim some food has some kind of nutrition add to it
Retail food demonstrations
Taste testing
Nutrient dense
Lots of nutrition
Quackery
Something that is not true or not the full truth
Empty calorie foods
No nutrition foods lots of calories like chocolate bars
Antioxidants
Are BHA and BHT added to prevent changes in quality of food
Trichinosis
Contracted by eating raw pork or pork that has not been cooking long enough
Salmonella
Found in poultry other meat and eggs
Infectious hepatitis
Can be carried in contaminated water and sewage
Staphylococcus aureus
Food poisoning found in the throat and nose the foods including ham roast poultry meat
Toxins
What bacteria products they can also be poison
Food borne illness
Eating food that has been contaminated by unwanted microorganism
Personal hygiene
When u keep yourself clean
Food safety
Following practices that help prevent food borne illness and keep food safe
Microorganism
Tiny living creatures only seen with a microscope
Bacteria
Harmful microorganism most are harmless but some carry illness
Vitamin C
Helps maintain healthy bones skin and teeth helps heal wounds helps absorb iron helps form collagen and works as an antioxidant
Vitamin K
Fat soluble helps you body use calcium and phosphorus helps build strong bones teeth
Vitamin K
Fat soluble necessary for blood to clot normally
Fructose
Naturally found in fruit is a sugar
Lactose
Sugar found in milk what people r allergic to
Calcium
Build strong bones and maintain bone strength prevent osteoporosis helps blood clot needed for muscle contractions
Obstetricians
A physician that specializes in pregnancy
Fetus
Unborn baby
Maltose
Surfer found in grains
Sucrose
Sugar found in cane or beet sugar
Perstalsis
When you have chewed and swallowed food, the muscles that line your gastrointestinal tract squeeze up and contract to push the food along, like a snake eating a mouse!
Pedestrians
A physician that studies children
Spina bifida
Happens to unborn children when their mother does not have enough folic acid
Vegan
Only eat plant sources
Lacto vegetarian
Dairy and plant sources
Vegetarian
Some who only eats plant sources but may eat stuff from animal ex ice cream
Ovo vegetarian
Eat eggs and plant sources
Lacto ovo vegetarian
Eat dairy eggs and plant sources
Semi vegetarian
Eat some meat like poultry and fish
Iron
Helps hemoglobin work and is found in hemoglobin
Hemoglobin
Carries oxygen to cells
Seitan
Wheat bases meat substitute
Tofu
Soybean curd
Megadose
Large supplement
Puls
Latin for pulses a thick soup make with peas lentils beans and legumes
Dessication
Chemical sprayed on crops to prevent bacteria from growing
Innoculant
Chemical sprayed in the seed
Nitrogen
From lighting
Symbiotic
A relationship between plants and bacteria where both sides benefit
Celiac
Damage to small intestine really allergic to gluten
Gluten
Protein found in wheat
Osteoporosis
A disease that makes your bone brittle and break easly
Organic heme iron
Found in meat sources
Inorganic non heme iron
Found in plant sources
Flatulence
Fart
Soy Beans
A plant source that is used as a milk substitute
Emulsion
A mixture that would not normally go together
Temporary emulsion
French dressing does not last long
Permanent emulsion
Mayonnaise dressing last together longer
Beading
Golden droplets on top of meringues
Weeping
Layer of moisture between the pie filling and the meringue
Interfering agent
Eggs in ice cream and sherbet keeps large ice crystals from forming
Binding agent
Eggs in meat loaf
Roux
White sauce with flour fat and seasoning
Unripened cheese
Ricotta cottage farmers and cream cheese and not been aged