Across
- 6. complicated chemical arrangements that plants form by combining single glucose units to build starches
- 9. chemical process by which plants make carbohydrates
- 11. takes cholesteral from the liver to wherever it is needed in the body
- 12. sugars with single unit chemical structures
- 14. fats are made from chemical structures
- 15. carbohydrates with complicated structures
- 19. formed when plants combined single glucose units into more complicated chemicals structures
- 21. foods from plant sources lack at least on essential amino acid
- 22. sugars extracted from plants and used to sweeten food
- 23. warehouse for this fat
- 24. picks up excess cholesterol and takes it back to the liver for excretion, keeping cholesterol from harming the body
- 25. transported in two types of lipoprotein packages LDL and HDL
Down
- 1. green pigment in plants must be present for photosynthesis to occur
- 2. amino acids that your body needs but cannot provide
- 3. two or more hydrogen units are missing
- 4. formed when two monosaccharides combine chemically
- 5. turns vegetables oil into solids
- 7. substances used in place of sugar to sweeten foods yet add few or no calories
- 8. plant materials that are eaten but can't be digested by human enzymes
- 10. sugars formed from simple one and two unit structures
- 13. proteins are made from chemical building
- 16. fatty acids contains all hydrogen it can chemically hold
- 17. simple carbohydrates chemically formed from plants
- 18. nutrient that is a person's main source of energy
- 20. some protein foods contain all the essential amino acids
