food stuff

Question 1

What are the food forms of pyridoxine?

Answer 1

plants, supplements, fortified foods: meat, fish, poultry, non citrus fruits, fortified grains, light sensitive and loss of vitamin by heating or leaching into water?

Question 2

which vitamins are light sensitive?

Answer 2

riboflavin (b2) and b6

Question 3

which vitamins are affected in some way by heat or cooking?

Answer 3

riboflavin(b2) – heat stable but light sensitive
b12– destroyed by microwave cooking
vit e – susceptible to processing damage
b6 (pyridoxine) –loss by heating or leaching into water; also light sensitive

Question 4

food sources of niacin(b3)?

Answer 4

wide distribution in plant and animal food: meat, poultry, milk, eggs, peanuts, mushrooms, beans, tomatoes, squash, fortified cereal, grains(like b6)

Question 5

food source of riboflavin(b2)?

Answer 5

milk, eggs, almonds, enriched cereal, liver and spinach, yogurt, cottage cheese, broccoli

Question 6

food source of thiamin(b1)?

Answer 6

plant and animal (phosphorylated derivatives), meat like pork, legumes, nuts

Question 7

food source of biotin(b1)?

Answer 7

wide food distribution, egg yolk, liver, carrots, cucumber, cauliflower

Question 8

food source of pantothenic acid?

Answer 8

yogurt, broccoli, mushrooms, like riboflavin!

Question 9

which two veggies do you eat a lot that are sources of ribboflavin and pantothenic acid?

Answer 9

broccoli and mushrooms

Question 10

food source of b12?

Answer 10

animal foods, milk, egg, PLANTS DO NOT MAKE THIS VITAMIN, remember destroyed by microwave cooking

Question 11

food source folate?

Answer 11

yeast, green leafy veg, nuts, seeds

Think Folate is a Forest (forest-y foods)

Question 12

food sources vit e?

Answer 12

plants, whet germ oil, corn oil, canola oil(ENYA)

spinach, broccoli

Question 13

food source of vit c?

Answer 13

asparagus, cantaloupe, broccolo, citrus fruits

Question 14

food source choline?

Answer 14

main source is phosphatidyl choline (PTDCHO), animal sources contain more choline than plants (meat, eggs, legumes, nuts/seeds, milk, grains, vegetables), plants provide betaine that can spare choline in some reactions

Question 15

what is special about thiamin in food?

Answer 15

heat sensitive factor reverse polyneuropathy in white rice diet –>thiamin in rice hulls could treat beriberi?

Question 16

what vitamins respectively, relate to pellagra and beriberi?

Answer 16

niacin(b3) is destroyed in flour unless enriched(pellagra appeared when diet was only in unenriched sources)
beriberi occurs in thiamin (b1) def. with muscle wasting and edema(dry and wet)

Question 17

what happens in thiaminase poisoning?

Answer 17

nardoo ferns have 100x more thiaminase activity than other ferns. cook them but rae you get wet beriberi and then die.