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literacy
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 20g
sugar and fats
custom homes
1 cup grated cheese
1 tablespoon butter
2. 9-11 servings daily
breads and grains
1 cup white sugar
Hydrolysis
1 cup grated cheese
3. Horizontal
width
Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR)
1 cup butter
Gel
4. Helps blood carry oxygen - helps cells use oxygen meat - liver - eggs - dry beans - spinach
Slow
iron
fiber
1 tablespoon
5. Amino acids that cannot be made in the body and must be obtained from food.
complementary
iron
Essential Amino Acid
1 cup butter
6. A lack of a substance / nutrient. It can lead to illness.
calcium
1 cup white sugar
digestion
Deficiency
7. Curved
Malnutrition
Fats: Description
Pepsin
relaxation
8. Built in a factory and installed at a specific site
chaos
1 tablespoon butter
manufactured home
Vitamins: Types
9. Helps have healthy gums and teeth <3
Hot
proteins
calcium
texture
10. 125g
Carbohydrates
chaos
Carbohydrates: Types
1 cup sifted flour
11. Protein deficiency - causes dermatitis - retarded growth and a pot belly. Common is 3rd World.
town home
Kwashiokor
1 tablespoon flour
Pepsidase
12. Amount of each nutrient that is needed to to meet a persons nutritional requirements.
Maillard Reaction
Peptide Link / Peptide Bond
Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA)
Very Hot
13. Gives you healthy skin and eyes
vitamin a...
Low Biological Value Protein
nutrients
Condensation Reaction
14. 250g
Water: Types
vitamin a...
Fats: Description
1 cup white sugar
15. Keeps the body healthy protecting it from diseases such as scurvy (Vit. C) and rickets (Vit. D).
Vitamins: Description
protein
1 cup white sugar
height
16. Built to a persons specifications
Hydrolysis
custom homes
Kwashiokor
Maillard Reaction
17. Globular proteins linked with other non-protein molecules.
Conjugated Protein
Deamination
Gel
1 tablespoon flour
18. The building blocks that make up proteins - Smallest part of a protein
Malnutrition
Peptide Link / Peptide Bond
amino acids
Very slow
19. Lack of adequate nutrition - result of lack of nutrition or unbalanced diet.
Vitamin C
electrolyte
Malnutrition
protein
20. Iron in eggs - calcium in milk - Iodine in fish - variety in fruit and vegtables.
nutrients
tract home
Minerals: Types
magnesium
21. Foods from the extras group are usually high
Fats: Types
sugar and fats
Pepsidase
1 tablespoon
22. Similar to a duplex - but three or more units share one family pays rent
Deamination
apartment home
Condensation Reaction
Vitamin D
23. When 2 or more amino acids break apart due to the addition of a water molecule which splits the peptide link. This happen during digestion.
Hydrolysis
Vitamin a...
1 cup sifted flour
minerals
24. This vitamin helps you have a healthy nervous system
Vitamin B
calcium
custom homes
1 cup butter
25. Builds new cells - muscles - hair - repairs tissue - supplies heat and energy if necessary.
iron
Protein: Description
1 cup icing sugar
Moderate Hot
26. Should be eaten sparingly
fats or extras
calcium
Very slow
Biological Value
27. The nutrient that helps carry nutrients throughout the body - helps regulate body temperature - and digest food
water
breads and grains
Hot
minerals
28. Helps your body fight infection and helps cuts heal
Vitamin C
saturated fats
Trypsin
Vitamin D
29. Builds up bone mass and prevents osteoporosis
calcium
sugar and fats
1 cup icing sugar
1 cup white sugar
30. A link formed during the condensation reaction when the amino group of one amino acid chemically combines with the carboxyl group of another amino acid with the loss of water molecule.
1 teaspoon
1 cup sifted flour
Peptide Link / Peptide Bond
Trypsin
31. Severe protein deficiency resulting in thin limbs - sunken face and pot belly. Occurs in 3rd World countries.
Marasmus
vitamin a...
1/4 teaspoon
1 cup icing sugar
32. This nutrient group helps you have healthy blood pressure
Moderate Hot
Minerals: Description
Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA)
iron
33. Substances that are important for the body's growth and care
nutrients
Gel
Very Hot
1 cup grated cheese
34. The food that the nutrient is found in.
Source
Essential Amino Acid
analogous
1 tablespoon flour
35. 230 - 250
potassium
Pepsin
Gel
Very Hot
36. Protein are formed as a result of chemical or enzymic action on the protein.
Derived Protein
Essential Amino Acid
Meat or Protein
calcium
37. One hue
Coagulation
1 tablespoon
monochromatic
Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA)
38. Plant material bodies cannot digest
1 tablespoon
fiber
Water: Types
Pepsidase
39. Vertical
height
calcium
protein
Water: Types
40. Breaking down excess protein in the liver. Carboxyl group is converted to glycogen and stored as energy. Amino group is converted to ammonia then to urea and excreted as urine.
Malnutrition
potassium
Deamination
olive oil
41. 2 or more proteins are eaten together to supplement each other. Occurs when one protein is lacking in one or more essential amino acids and is eaten with another food which contains the missing essential amino acid. E.g. beans on toast (Beans are hig
Supplementary Value/ Complementary Value
complementary
Vitamin a...
Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA)
42. A food contains all the essential amino acids - also known as a complete protein. Usually comes from animal sources but is found in soya beans.
High Biological Value
sugar and fats
Vitamin C
Vitamin D
43. Helps body fight infection - helps wounds heal - helps keep gums healthy citrus fruits - berries - melon
thiamine
1/2 teaspoon
vitamin c
Source
44. Catalyst that speeds up or slows down a reaction without being used up itself.
fiber
magnesium
Enzyme
osteoporosis
45. Helps muscles contract - helps produce energy - helps regulate many body functions nuts - peanut butter
magnesium
electrolyte
Deamination
thiamine
46. Help the body build and repair and maintain tissues and body cells
Very Hot
proteins
space
Vitamin a...
47. Provides heat and energy in sugars and starches and fibre prevents constipation for healthy bowels.
water
Fats: Types
Carbohydrates: Description
Moderate Hot
48. Enzyme made in the stomach which breaks caesinogen into caesin.
Supplementary Value/ Complementary Value
Low Biological Value Protein
1 cup butter
Rennin
49. A nutrient needed in large amounts (protein - carbohydrate - lipid)
Protein: Description
Vitamin D
Macronutrient
Carbohydrates: Description
50. 20g
breads and grains
Fats: Description
Vitamin a...
1 tablespoon