Vitamins and minerals :are often called micronutrient because body needs only small amount of them. Vita-life Amine-containing nitrogen • Vitamins are the organic compounds which enhance the metabolism of proteins‚ carbohydrates and fats. • Without vitamins the breakdown of food could not occur. • vitamins are participate in the formation of blood cells hormones nervous system and genetic material Classification of vitamins: Fat soluble vitamins ‚ *Water soluble vitamins Fat soluble
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Is High Vitamin C all it claims to be? These days‚ there is much concern on our consumption of food drink‚ we’re told we do not intake the required daily level of fruit and veg‚ many manufactures claim to provide excellent levels of nutrients‚ This experiment will be carried out to see whether the vitamin c levels claimed by manufacturers are actually present in the drinks‚ this will be done by experimenting various drinks using blue DCPIP solution. The quantity of vitamin C in food and drink
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VITAMINS AND MINERALS Vitamins and minerals make people’s bodies work properly. Although you get vitamins and minerals from the foods you eat every day‚ some foods have more vitamins and minerals than others. Vitamins fall into two categories: fat soluble and water soluble. The fat-soluble vitamins — A‚ D‚ E‚ and K — dissolve in fat and can be stored in your body. The water-soluble vitamins — C and the B-complex vitamins (such as vitamins B6‚ B12‚ niacin‚ riboflavin‚ and folate) — need to dissolve
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Proteins are the building blocks of our cells. The proteins that are in our body and ingested are broken down into amino acids and used throughout the body. Our bodies need protein to provide fuel to do the basic of functions. Protein helps to give energy and helps with muscles‚ bones‚ and cells growth. There are two different types of proteins. Complete protein provides all the amino acids that are needed within the body. Incomplete proteins provide some but not all of the necessary amino
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Vitamins and Minerals Vitamins and minerals are essential nutrients that every cell needs. Vitamins can function like hormones or as antioxidants. Minerals are essential to important bodily functions such as producing energy‚ growing‚ and healing. Minerals are required for fluid balance‚ development‚ nervous system maintenance .Minerals and vitamins‚ function as coenzymes and participate in enzymatic reactions in the body. Vitamin and mineral deficiencies can affect the brain many different ways
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Vitamins and Minerals What are vitamins? Vitamins are nutrients that everyone needs in small amounts for the body to work properly. Different vitamins have different functions. For example‚ some enzymes need particular vitamins to work. Your body can’t make most vitamins apart from vitamin D‚ so you have to get them from the food you eat. There are two types of vitamins: water-soluble vitamins - these cannot be stored in your body and need to be replaced regularly in your diet fat-soluble
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Vitamin & Mineral Project Sundria Carroll February 22nd‚ 2011 Diet 1310 650 Brenda Speight‚ Instructor Vitamin K Vitamins are a group of organic substances essential in small quantities to normal metabolism‚ found in minute amounts in natural foods or sometimes produced synthetically. Vitamins help our bodies metabolize nutrients and grow cells. They come in two forms: those tat dissolve in water (vitamins B & C) and those that are absorbed and stored in fat (vitamins A‚ D‚ E
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Mariam Haider Micronutrients Vitamins Written Task Design Brief; Foods are not ‘pure’ substances. Although referred to as protein foods‚ or carbohydrate foods‚ this only recognized the food to be high in a particular nutrient. In fact‚ foods are mixtures of different nutrients and other chemical substances such as toxins‚ pigments and additives. Protein‚ carbohydrates and fat are regarded as macronutrients due to the size of their molecules. These nutrients are needed in large quantities
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Toddlers aged 1 to 3 need about 19 grams a day. Kids 4 to 8 need 25 grams a day. Between 9 and 13‚ girls and boys need 26 grams and 31 grams of fiber a day. Children need to take their fiber from various sources to make sure they have both soluble and insoluble fiber. Soluble fiber is commonly found in
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Outline Introduction Vitamin E: is a fat soluble vitamin found in many foods and oils. It serves as an Antioxidant is a substance that may prevent damage to the body’s cells. The Importants of this vitamin is to help your body make red blood cells. I. Function: The antioxidant being the most important and best known. As enzymatic is a regulator for instance protein Kinase which plays a role in smooth muscle
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