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- 4. Starches and sugars found in foods, which provide your body's main source of energy.
- 8. Additives Substances added to a food to produce a desired effect.
- 10. The spreading of pathogens from one food to another.
- 12. High ratio of nutrients to calories.
- 14. Guidelines of Americans Set of recommendations about smart eating and physical activity for all Americans.
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- 1. Nutrients that the body uses to build and maintain its cells and tissues.
- 2. An interactive guide to healthful eating and active living.
- 3. Compound found in food that help regulate many body processes.
- 5. Allergy Condition in which the body's immune system reacts to substances in some foods.
- 6. Substances in food that your body needs to grow,to repair itself, and supply you with energy.
- 7. Waxy fatlike substance
- 8. Intolerance Negative reaction to food that doesn't involve the immune system.
- 9. Unit of heat used to measure the energy your body uses and the energy it receives from food.
- 11. The process by which your body takes in and uses food.
- 13. A tough complex carbohydrate that the body cannot digest.
