Across
- 3. Chemical building blocks of proteins that link together in many arrangements
- 6. Sugars extracted from plants and used to sweeten foods
- 9. Formed when two monosaccharides combine chemically
- 10. lipoprotein that picks up cholesterol and takes it back to the liver for excretion, "good" cholesterol
- 12. Have to get them from food, body doesn't produce them
- 13. Plant materials that are eaten but can't be digested by human enzyme
- 14. Sugars with single-unit chemical structures
- 15. Formed when plants combine single glucose units into more complicated chemical structure
- 16. Nutrient that is a person's main source of energy; found in mostly plant foods
- 19. Simple carbs chemically formed from plants; made from carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen
- 20. Green pigment in plants
Down
- 1. chemical process that turns vegetable oils into solids
- 2. Chemical process in which plants make carbs
- 4. substances used in place of sugar to sweeten foods yet add a few or no calories
- 5. Any food that has all nine essential amino acids
- 7. Fat-like substance in all body cells; needed for many essential body processes
- 8. Build & repair body tissue and maintain cell growth
- 11. Complicated chemical arrangements that plants form by combining single glucose units to build starches
- 17. cells that store fats from foods that grow larger as they store additional fat
- 18. chemical structures that make up fats