Vitamins & Minerals

Question 1

[True or False]

Vitamins do not yield usable energy when broken down

Answer 1

TRUE

Question 2

What are the Fat-Soluble Vitamins?

Answer 2

Vitamins, A, D, E, K

Question 3

What type of vitamins are absorbed like fat, into the lymphatic system? They are stored in larger quantities and less vulnerable to cooking losses

Answer 3

Fat-Soluble Vitamins

Question 4

What are the Water-Soluble Vitamins

Answer 4

8 B-Vitamins, and Vitamin C

Question 5

What type of vitamins are absorbed into the bloodstream, stored in small amounts, and vulnerable to cooking losses

Answer 5

Water-Soluble Vitamins

Question 6

Vitamin that is absorbed directly into the blood

Answer 6

Water-soluble vitamins

Question 7

Vitamins that is absorbed first into the lymp; then the blood

Answer 7

Fat-soluble vitamin

Question 8

Vitamin the can travel freely inside the body

Answer 8

Water-Soluble Vitamin

Question 9

Vitamin that required protein carriers to move in the body

Answer 9

Fat-Soluble Vitamin

Question 10

Vitamin that circulates freely in the water filled parts of the body

Answer 10

Water-Soluble Vitamin

Question 11

Vitamin that is stored in the cells associated with fat

Answer 11

Fat-Soluble Vitamin

Question 12

Vitamins that kidneys detect and remove excess in urine

Answer 12

Water-Soluble Vitamin

Question 13

Vitamins that less readily excreted; tend to remain in fat-storage sites

Answer 13

Fat-Soluble Vitamin

Question 14

Vitamins that is likely to reach toxic levels when consumed from supplements

Answer 14

Water-Soluble & Fat- Soluble Vitamins

Question 15

Vitamins needed in frequent doses (perhaps 1 to 3 days)

Answer 15

Water-Soluble Vitamin

Question 16

Vitamins needed in periodic doses (perhaps weeks or even months)

Answer 16

Fat-Soluble Vitamins

Question 17

Means to replace lost nutrients

Answer 17

Enrichment

Question 18

Means to add extra nutrients (not in the food item to begin with)

Answer 18

Fortification

Question 19

Vitamins in foods in an inactive form

Answer 19

Provitamins

Question 20

How much of the PDRI or RENI is needed for a food to be considered fortified

Answer 20

1/3

Question 21

Vitamin antagonists or pseudovitamins

Often related to the biologically active vitamins in terms of chemical nature

Substances that interfere with the synthesis or metabolism of the vitamins

Answer 21

Antivitamins

Question 22

Antivitamins are often found in?

Answer 22

Raw foods like egg white

Question 23

Common functions of this are:
▪︎ normal exchange of materials between body fluid compartments
▪︎ contractility of muscles
▪︎ transmission of nerve impulses
▪︎ oxidative processes and metabolic reactions
▪︎ digestive processes
▪︎ normal bloid clotting
▪︎ maintenance of pH

Answer 23

Minerals

Question 24

Found in the human body in amounts larger than 5 grams in a reference individual

Answer 24

Minerals

Question 25

Minerals needed by the body in larger amounts, 400-1000 mg

Answer 25

Major Minerals

Question 26

Major minerals

Answer 26

1. Calcium 2. Phosphorus 3. Potassium 4. Sulfue 5. Sodium 6. Chloride 7. Magnesium

Question 27

Major minerals that influence the body's fluid balance Plays a role in maintaining homeostasis Jet member of the team if nutrients involved in regulating blood pressure

Answer 27

Sodium, chloride, and potassium

Question 28

Major minerals that participate in many reactions involving glucose, fatty acids, amino acids, and the vitamins

Answer 28

Phosphorus and Magnesium

Question 29

Major minerals that combine to form the structure of bone and teeth

Answer 29

Calcium, phosphorus, magnesium

Question 30

Major minerals that plays an important role in helping strands of protein to assuje a functional shape Skin, hair, nails contain some of the body's more rigid proteins, which contains high content of this mineral

Answer 30

Sulfur

Question 31

Minerals needed by the body in smaller amounts, 1.5-27 milligrams or lower

Answer 31

Minor Minerals

Question 32

Minor Minerals

Answer 32

1. Iron 2. Zinc 3. Iodine 4. Selenium 5. Copper 6. Manganese 7. Fluoride 8. Chromium 9. Molybdenum

Question 33

Minor mineral that is an integral part of the protein hemoglobin

Answer 33

Iron

Question 34

Minor mineral that helps form hemoglobin

Answer 34

Copper

Question 35

Carries oxygen to the different parts of the body

Answer 35

Copper

Question 36

Minor mineral that is also vital in the formation of heme in hemoglobin It also liberates Vitamin A from the storage in the liver

Answer 36

Zinc

Question 37

Minor mineral that is the component of the thyroid hormone that regulate growth and development

Answer 37

Chromium

Question 38

Minor minerals that functions as part of several metal-containing enzymes

Answer 38

Molybdenum