Carbohydrates, protein, fats, vitamins, minerals and fibre
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What is malnutrition?
You have too much or too little of the food types
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What are proteins and what are they made up of?
Long molecules made of chains of amino acids
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What happens when the protein breaks down in your gut?
The amino acids seperate
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How many different amino acids are there?
20
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What do cells join amino acids to make?
Cells join them in different combinations to make every protein they need
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What do cells use nutrients for?
Respiration and to build proteins
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What do proteins made by amino acids act as?
Structural compounds of tissues (such as muscles), Hormones (such as insulin), antibodies (part of the body's immune system) and biological catalysts (enzymes)
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What are the two different forms of carbohydrate?
There are starches with big molecules and sugars, like glucose with small molecules
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What happens to the glucose after it has been broken down from starch?
It doesnt need digesting, so it passes straight into your blood where cells use it for respiration
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Does starch digest slowly or quickly?
Slowly
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Where are spare glucose molecules stored?
In your muscles and liver until you need them
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What happens if the stores which hold the spare glucose molecules are full?
The rest is converted to fat
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What taste are we born with?
A taste for sweet, fatty foods
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What factor plays a big part in deciding what we eat?
Convienience
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What factors do shoppers subconciously think about when they are deciding what to buy?
What their families like, taste, value for money and conveinience
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What are families buying more of which are bad for your health?
Ready meals which contain large amounts of sugar, salt and saturated fat
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