Food And Digestion Flashcards

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6 major nutrients

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Carbohydrates,fat,protein,vitamins,minerals and water

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Food is needed for

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Energy,growth,and repair and protection from diseases

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Carbohydrates

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Sugar e.g. Glucose and sucrose,starch (potatoes) fibre (stops constipation)

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Fats

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Also called lipids e.g. Butter,lard,oil (cod liver oil)

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Protein

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Meat,fish,eggs,milk.Help to repair muscle tissue

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Vitamin C

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Found in citrus fruits,green veg,turnips. Function is to form connective tissue ,deficiency leads to bleeding gums and teeth lost (scurvy)

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Vitamin D

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Sunshine vitamin found in cod liver oil,super milk,and in sunlight .its function is healthy teeth and bones (absorbs calcium) deficiency leads to rickets

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Calcium

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Found in milk and cheese to form healthy bones in animals and cell walls in plant cell

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Iron

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Found in liver,green veg to form haemoglobin in red blood cells to transport oxygen around the body deficiency leads to anaemia ( very tired)

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Balanced diet

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The right amount of nutrients to stay healthy

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Food pyramid

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A guide to how much of each food you should be eaten for a healthy diet

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Eating

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Food is taken by the body

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Digestion

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Food is broken down

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Absorption

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Digested food passes into the bloodstream

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Elimination

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Getting rid of up digested food

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Test for starch (bread)

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Iodine blue/black

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Test for reducing sugars (jam)

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Benedict’s solution Heat gently. Blue -> brick red

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Proteins (egg white)

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Ether biuret reagent Blue-> violet

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Fats (oil)

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Rub onto brown paper Translucent spot

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Stages of nutrition

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Eat,digest,absorp,eliminate

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Physical digest

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Taking large pieces of food and breaking them down into smaller pieces happens in the:
Mouth (teeth)
Stomach (churning)

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Chemical digestion

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Uses enzymes. Enzymes are chemicals that speed up reactions without being used up in the reaction

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Substrate enzyme product

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Starch amylase maltose

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Most chemical digestion happens in the

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Small intestine

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Bile

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Made in liver to break down fats

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Pancreas

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Makes digestive juices which contain enzymes

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Mouth

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Physical (teeth) and chemical (amylase) digestion

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Oseophagus

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Brings food from the mouth to the stomach

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Liver

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Makes bile (breaks down fats)

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Stomach

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Physical (churning) and chemical (stomach enzymes) digestion

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Large intestine

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Water reabsorpition happens here

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Rectrum

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Stores undigested food

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Anus

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Undigested food passes out

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Gall bladder

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Bile is stored

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Product

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The substance produced as a result of the action of an enzyme

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Substrate

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The substance that an enzyme acts on

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Small intestine

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Most chemical digestion happens here

Absorption of nutrients happens here