Vocabulary Chapter 6

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  1. 4. partial or total inability to digest lactose
  2. 9. deficiency of glucose in the bloodstream.
  3. 11. food claimed to have an additional function by adding new ingredients or more of existing ingredients
  4. 12. an odorless, tasteless white substance occurring widely in plant tissue and obtained chiefly from cereals and potatoes
  5. 18. made up of sugar molecules that are strung together in long, complex chains.
  6. 20. Dietary fiber or roughage is the portion of plant-derived food that cannot be completely broken down by human digestive enzymes
  7. 21. a hormone produced in the pancreas by the islets of Langerhans, which regulates the amount of glucose in the blood. The lack of insulin causes a form of diabetes.
  8. 22. A measure of the increase in the level of blood glucose (a type of sugar) caused by eating a specific carbohydrate (food that contains sugar)
Down
  1. 1. includes the parts of plant foods your body can't digest or absorb
  2. 2. something that completes or enhances something else when added to it
  3. 3. isolated or purified carbohydrates that are non digestible, absorbed in the small intestine, and have beneficial physiological effects in humans
  4. 5. any substance that is composed of two molecules of simple sugars (monosaccharides) linked to each other.
  5. 6. any of the class of sugars
  6. 7. a substance deposited in bodily tissues as a store of carbohydrates. It is a polysaccharide which forms glucose on hydrolysis.
  7. 8. a group of diseases that affect how the body uses blood sugar (glucose).
  8. 10. The most common and abundant forms are sugars, fibers, and starches.
  9. 13. a regulatory substance produced in an organism and transported in tissue fluids such as blood or sap to stimulate specific cells or tissues into action.
  10. 14. abundant carbohydrates found in food.
  11. 15. a simple sugar which is an important energy source in living organisms and is a component of many carbohydrates.
  12. 16. a sweet crystalline substance obtained from various plants, especially sugar cane and sugar beet
  13. 17. broken down quickly by the body to be used as energy.
  14. 19. tooth decay or dental cavities