NTR 108 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: High Fructose Corn Syrup, Essential Fatty Acid, Blood Sugar
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Module 1 intro - nutrition: food & its nutrients, food, nutrients: components of food, essential nutrients: things you need daily, nonessential nutrients: things your body can make by itself, so you don"t need it as often ex. Hershey bar: complex carbohydrate - tend to be natural foods. Sweet potato -> reason: whole food: lipids - visible and hidden, proteins - animal and vegetable, vitamins, water soluble: vitamins that can beak down in water. Vits b & ascorbic acid (vit c: lipid (fat) soluble: fat that help absorb vitamins. Vitamin a, d, e, k: minerals, major: things you need in a larger portions, trace: thing you need a in lesser portion, water, other components of food (phytochemicals) - not nutrients. Substance found in food that seems to offer some health benefits: nutrients that release energy during their metabolism: 7kcal/g: nutrients that don"t release energy during their metabolism, vitamins - there"re 13 vitamins, each with a unique structure.
