Chapter 13- Started in th Kitchen Flashcards
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Time-work schedule
Specific tasks to prepare a meal.
Recipe
It is instructions to prepare food.
Dovetail
You overlap tasks to use your time more efficiently
Nutrition
Studies the nutrients in your body and how it is used
Nutrient
A chemical substance in food that helps your body
Malnutrition
Lack of nutrients in your body
Deficiency Disease
Illness from lack of nutrients
Dietary Supplements
Purified nutrients that are manufactured and come from sources
Phytochemicals
Compounds that come from plants that are active in human bodies
Fortified Foods
Where nutrients is added in amounts greater than what would naturally come in food
Carbohydrates
Body’s chief source of energy
Glucose
A form of sugar in a bloodstream that gives you energy
Fiber
Complex carbohydrates from plants that humans cannot digest
Fats
Important energy sources
Fatty Acids
They are chemical chains that have carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen atoms in them
Hydrogenation
They add hydrogen atoms to unsaturated fatty acids
Trans fatty acids
There fatty acids that have odd molecular shapes
Cholesterol
A fatlike substance found in every cell of the body
Proteins
Chemical compounds found in every cell in your body
Amino acids
Proteins are made of them in small units
Protein-Energy Malnutrition
Symptoms of weight loss and fatigue
Vitamins
Complex organic substances
Fat-soluble vitamins
Dissolve in fats
Water-soluble vitamins
Dissolves in water