Food groups and nutrients
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- Food groups and nutrients
- Vitamins
- Vitamin A: good vision, healthy skin and growth.
- Liver
- Eggs and other diary products
- Tomatoes
- Green and yellow veg,
- Many orange foods, including carrots, apricots, sweet potatoes, squash and mangoes.
- Vitamin D: Absorb cslcium for healthy teeth and bones.
- Oily Fish
- Margarine
- Eggs
- Mushrooms
- Fortified dairy and cereal products e.g. milk, cheese and butter.
- Vitamin b12: formation of red blood cells.
- Shellfish e.g crab, oysters and clams.
- milk
- Liver
- Red meat and cheese
- Vitamin C: helps absorb iron, healthy skin and protect of cells.
- Papaya
- Bell Peppers
- Broccoli
- citrus fruits i.e oranges
- Vitamin B; break down and release energy from food- keeps skin, nerve and digestive systems healthy.
- milk
- eggs
- breads
- rice
- meat
- Vitamin A: good vision, healthy skin and growth.
- Carbohydrates
- provide energy
- two types- starch and sugar
- Sugar
- Fruit
- apples, grapes
- Veg
- Honey
- Milk
- Fruit
- Starch
- Cereall
- Potatoes
- Bread
- Pasta
- Sugar
- protein
- needed for growth and repair
- animal sources
- Fish
- Meat
- Cheese
- Eggs
- Vegetable sources
- Nuts
- Soya-beans
- Pulses
- Minerals
- Calcium; growth of healthy bones and teeth.
- milk
- cheese
- eggs
- tofu
- green veg and many other diary pro
- Iron: formation of red blood cells
- green leafy veg like cabbage and broccoli
- red meat
- eggs
- lentils
- Calcium; growth of healthy bones and teeth.
- Fats
- provide concentrated energy and insulate body
- Saturated
- Butter, lard, coconut oil and palm oil.
- Polyunsaturated
- sunflower oil and other veg sources
- Dietary fibre- NSP
- needed to help maintain a healthy digestive system.
- soluble fibre sources:fruit, veg, pulses and oats. Helps to reduce cholesterol
- insoluble fibre: cereal, bread and pasta. Helps to maintain digestive syst
- nutritional requirements of a healthy diet- the three guideline names.
- DRV- dietery reference value. estimates of the nutritional requirements of different groups of healthy people of different ages.
- EAR- estimated average requirements these are an estimation of the needs of most people in a particular group.
- RNI- reference nutrion intake
- Vitamins
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