Across
- 4. Stimulates muscles in digestive tract to help food through the body
- 6. Our body breaks this down first
- 7. How many amino acids are essential for good health?
- 12. The different structure types of carbs
- 15. Amino acids that the body needs but cannot provide; obtained from foods
- 17. Simple carbohydrates chemically formed from plants; made of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen
- 18. Outerskin of grain
- 20. Formed when plants combine simple glucose units into more complicated chemical structures
- 23. Plant proteins that lack at least one essential amino acids
- 24. Chemical structures that make up fats
- 25. Simple, hard seed
Down
- 1. Carbohydrates with complicated structures; starches
- 2. What is the main function of proteins?
- 3. Embryo of grain
- 5. Complicated chemical arrangements that plants form by combining single glucose units to build starch
- 8. How often do you need protein?
- 9. How many amino acids are non-essential for good health?
- 10. Sugars with single unit chemical structure
- 11. Sugars extracted from plants and used to sweeten foods
- 13. Sugars formed from simple one and two unit structures
- 14. Fat like substances in all body cells; needed for many essential body processes
- 16. Formed when two monosaccharides combine chemically
- 19. How many different types of amino acids are there?
- 21. Chemical building blocks of proteins that link together in many arrangements
- 22. Vitamins the factory puts back were naturally found in food