NUTR 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Health Canada, Folic Acid, B Vitamins
4 May 2017
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Organic molecules that we need to eat or our bodies to function. We talk about vitamins being either water soluble or fat 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 proteins. Often stored in the body, cod be dangerous. They act as co-enzymes for energy metabolism. Flour, white flour, enriched flour or enriched white flour is enriched with: Foriti cation: process of adding nutrients to foods generally not found in the food. Enrichment: adding nutrients back to foods that have lost nutrients due to processing. Health canada regulates which foods must be forti ed and which nutrients should be added. Grains with thiamin, ribo avin, niacin, iron and folic acid. Became very common in asia when polished (white) rice was introduced.
