Nutrients From food to you
Across
- 3. Gastric juices break down food chemically
- 9. A fut like substance found in body cells, helps carry out many body processes
- 11. A substance that performs a job in your body, more than 40 of these
- 12. measures the amount of energy in food
- 13. Comes from plant material that cannot be digested
- 14. A product that may contain vitamins, minerals and other nutrients
- 17. every cell has this, regulates body temp, you drink it
- 18. are nutrients needed in small amounts
- 19. Helps red blood cells carry oxygen to all your cells
Down
- 1. Saliva in and teeth start to break down food here
- 2. is made of many sugar units attached together
- 4. used by the body for many processes, regulating body processes for fluids, cells, etc
- 5. A nutrient that serves as body's main energy source
- 6. Are substances that the body uses to build new cells and repair injured ones
- 7. A nutrition deficiency
- 8. A simple carbohydrate digested quickly
- 10. Nutrients are taken here to be made ready for use
- 15. bread, rice Cereal, grits, and pasta
- 16. naturally present in meat, poultry, fish, dairy foods, and nuts