Proteins

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  • Created on: 26-04-13 19:38
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  • Protein
    • What are Proteins?
      • Protein is one of the MACRONUTRIENTS essential for growth and repair.
    • Functions of protein in the diet
      • Growth especially in Children, teenagers and pregnant women.
      • Repair body tissue after illness, accidents, surgery
      • Provide a secondary source of energy.
    • Sources
      • Animals sources: all meats such as poultry, offal, game, fish, cheese, milk, eggs + gelatine
      • Vegetable sources: soya beans, soya products, pulses, beans, cereal grains, cereal products, nuts + quor
    • Amino acids
      • Human body needs all 20 amino acids for the maintenance of health and growth
      • Essential amino acids are: cant be made by the body
    • HBV proteins (high biological value)
      • Eggs
      • Fish
      • Milk
    • LBV proteins (low biological value)
      • Nuts
      • Beans
      • Lentils
    • Food combining
      • Vegetarian, vegan diets rely on combining LBV proteins
        • Examples: beans on toast, dhal and rice, hummus and pitta bread

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jill richardson

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Basic information about proteins. Can you add to it to provide more detail? Or you could print it off and display it to remind you of key facts.

LBindon11

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good revision resources. it is helping me revise better

ahooper

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Excellenta

Collie3434

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helpful

shabalinka

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Relate more to food, what contains it etc. for exam notes, needs to be more detailed, otherwise good!

Ceri.Is.A.Student->Teacher

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It's a cool revision guide but can it be in more detail?

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