Nutrition science
Across
- 3. and amino acid is the body cannot make for itself and must obtain from foods
- 7. the maintenance of stable levels of acid and binds in the body fluid
- 12. plants that have a special ability to capture nitrogen from the air and transfer it to their protein rich seeds
- 15. two or more incomplete proteins that can be combined to provide all essential amino acids
- 16. a condition caused by a lack of calories and protein in a person's eating powder
- 18. the amino acids that body can make for itself
Down
- 1. a compression of the nitrogen a person consumes with the nitrogen he or she excretes
- 2. an energy yo yielding micronutrient composed of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen
- 4. a sickness caused by the lack of an essential nutrient
- 5. proteins combined of all the essential amino acids humans
- 6. practice of making eating choices consistently entirely or largely of plant foods
- 8. protein that is lacking in sufficient amounts of one or more essential amino acids
- 9. a protein deficiency disease
- 10. a wasting disease caused by a lack of calories
- 11. a compound that can conduct an excess of either acid or face in a fluid
- 13. a protein that defends the body against infections and disease
- 14. the building blocks of protein
- 17. the caring of the structures of a protein caused by heat, acids, bases, alcohol, by agitation and oxidation