Nutrition Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. Basic building block of fats
  2. 5. Sugar that is extracted from plants, used to sweeten foods
  3. 7. Green pigment in plants
  4. 8. The process by which plants use the sun's energy to make oxygen and glucose
  5. 10. A food that lacks one or more of the essential amino acid
  6. 12. The body's main source of energy
  7. 14. Sugar made of several monosaccharides
  8. 17. A carbohydrate that requires more work for the body to digest
  9. 19. Tastes like sugar but with little or no calories
  10. 20. Sugar with a single chemical unit
Down
  1. 1. A food that contains all nine essential amino acids
  2. 3. Plant material that can't be digested
  3. 4. A basic fat molecule
  4. 6. A carbohydrate that supplies energy for the body
  5. 9. Carbohydrate with simple chemical structure
  6. 11. Carbohydrate with more complex chemical structure than sugar
  7. 13. Molecule that combines with others of itself to make proteins
  8. 15. Your body needs it but can't make it
  9. 16. Protein that transports oxygen in the blood to all cells in your body
  10. 18. Sugar with two monosaccharide