Nutrition

Question 1

What are vitamins?

Answer 1

Organic molecules required for normal metabolism

Question 2

What are the two categories of vitamins?

Answer 2

Water-soluble vitamins

Fat-soluble vitamins

Question 3

What are water-soluble vitamins?

Answer 3

Vitamins which dissolve in water, including vitamin B and C. These are easily absorbed into the blood from the digestive tract

Question 4

What is a fat-soluble vitamin?

Answer 4

Vitamins which dissolve in fat, including vitamin A, D, E and K. They are absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract within the lipid of micelles, and enter the lymphatic capillaries

Question 5

What do macronutrients do?

Answer 5

Supply us with calroies and energy

Question 6

What does fat do for our body?

Answer 6

Improve brain development, cell functioning, the body’s organs and even helping you absorb vitamins found in foods
To form all plasma membranes

Question 7

What are proteins made up of? How many natural ones are their?

Answer 7

Amino acids

Around 20 natural ones

Question 8

What do proteins help to do for the body?

Answer 8

Repairing and regenerating body tissues and cells, healthy functioning immune system and manufacturing hormones

Question 9

What are carbohydrates? How are they broken down?

Answer 9

Small chains of sugar which the digestive body breaks down into glucose to use as the body’s primarily energy source

Question 10

What do carbohydrates give us?

Answer 10

They give us energy - simple sugars

Question 11

What are micronutrients?

Answer 11

They are needed as much as macronutrients.
They work with macronutrients to keep the body functioning, and are very important in maintaining energy levels, metabolism, cellular function and physical and mental wellbeing

Question 12

What are micronutrients?

Answer 12

• Vitamins and minerals

Question 13

What does vitamin D do?

Answer 13

Helps the body to take calcium from food sources passing through the digestive tract rather than tacking them from the bones. Regulation of calcium and phosphate. Keep bones, teeth and muscles healthy.

Question 14

What does vitamin C do?

Answer 14

Help your body to absorb iron. Helps with growth, development and repair of all body tissues. It is involved in the formation of collagen, absorption of iron, the immune system, wound healing, and maintenance of cartilage, bones and teeth

Question 15

What does vitamin A do?

Answer 15

Helps to keep the cells healthy and protects your vision. It is a fat-soluble vitamin which is naturally in foods. It helps the heart, lungs, kidneys and other organs work correctly

Question 16

What does vitamin B do?

Answer 16

Helps to keep the body’s nerve and blood cells healthy, it also helps to make DNA

Question 17

Give 4 examples of minerals?

Answer 17

Calcium, chloride, magnesium, potassium

Question 18

What 4 foods are low in sugar?

Answer 18

Broccoli, dark choclate, beans, grapes

Question 19

What 4 foods are high in sugar?

Answer 19

Dates, mashed potato, parsnips and baked potatoes

Question 20

Where is bile produced and stored?

Answer 20

Produced in the liver

Stored in the gall bladder

Question 21

Which two sites produce the enzyme amylase?

Answer 21

Mouth and the pancreas