NUTR 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: B Vitamins, Organic Compound, Oatmeal
30 Nov 2016
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Vitamins are organic molecules our body needs in order to function (organic molecule = contain carbon) Minerals are inorganic molecules (from periodic table) our body needs in order to function. Don"t provide us with energy, but we need to eat them so that our body can function well. Make and maintain tissues like bones and blood. Organic molecules that we need to eat for our bodies to function well. Transported into intestinal cells using facilitated diffusion or active transport. Transported into the body bound to blood proteins. Are best absorbed when eaten with fat. Are absorbed into intestinal cells via chylomicrons. Transported in the body as lipoproteins or bound to transport proteins. Often stored in the body, could be dangerous! They act as co-enzyme for energy metabolism. Fortification: processing of adding nutrients to food generally not found in food (added calcium to soy/almond milk or orange juice)
