Food and Digestion (Science)

Question 1

What are the 7 food groups in the body

Answer 1

Carbohydrates, Proteins, Fats, Vitamins, Minerals, Dietary fibre, Water

Question 2

What does malnutrition mean?

Answer 2

When the body is starved from essential nutrients

Question 3

What does starvation mean?

Answer 3

When the body has exhausted its reserved energy and has begun to starve eating your muscles

Question 4

How do you test for protein?

Answer 4

ad a few drops of copper sulfate solution to your food solution, add a few drops of sodium hydroxide solution if the solution turn purple, the food contains protein

Question 5

How do you test for starach?

Answer 5

Add a few drops of iodine solution to your food solution and if it turn dark-blue it contains starch

Question 6

How do you test for glucose/sugar?

Answer 6

Add a few drops of Benedicts solution to the food solution, heat the test tube in a water bath of the solution turns orange, it contains sugar

Question 7

How do you test for glucose/sugar?

Answer 7

Add a few drops of Benedicts solution to the food solution, heat the test tube in a water bath of the solution turns orange, it contains sugar

Question 8

What are the health problems that come with a poor diet?

Answer 8

Obesity, Tooth decay, High Blood-Pressure and Cholesterol, Heart Disease and stroke

Question 9

What is a balanced diet?

Answer 9

It contains different kinds of food from different food groups that help stimulate body growth and repair