NATS 1575 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Chemical Formula, Starch, Sucrose

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18 May 2018

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LECTURE 6: PLANTS AS FOOD

1. Benefits of whole plant foods: both simple and complicated carbs

2. Cars are ade up of sugar uits alled oosaharides: CHO atos

3. Can help with energy storage

4. Carbs are stored as POLYsaccharides, eg starch in plants/potatoes, glycoge in humans

5. E.g. of simple: glucose molecule

6. Glucose produced in photosynthesis in plants, and stored. (Chemical formula given).

7. Sucrose is made of glucose and fructose together

8. Seeds develop from fertilized ovule and have energy storage, including starch molecules

(mentioned earlier)

9. Dietary starch includes root veg, grains, legumes. Humans.

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