NUTR 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Lipoprotein, Infant Formula, Chylomicron

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What are vitamins: organic molecules that we need to eat for our bodies to function. What does organic mean again: we talk about vitamins being either water soluble or fat soluble. Water soluble vs fat soluble vitamins: water soluble. Transported into intestinal cells using facilitated diffusion or active transport. Transported in the body bound to blood proteins. Are best absorbed when eaten with fat. Are absorbed into intestinal cells in chylomicrons with lipids. Transported in the body as lipoproteins or bound to transport protein. Often stored in the body, could be dangerous. Flour, white flour, enriched flour or enriched white flour is enriched with: Fortification: process of adding nutrients to foods generally not found in the food (e. g. , adding calcium to orange juice) Enrichment: adding nutrients back to foods that have lost nutrients due to processing (e. g. , adding b vitamins to white rice) Health canada regulates which foods must be fortified and which nutrients should be added.

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