Food and its Components
Food and its Components: Overview
This topic covers concepts, such as, Food, Meal, Sources of Dietary Fibres & Water as a Food Component etc.
Important Questions on Food and its Components
If vitamin C is called ascorbic acid then what are vitamin A and D called?
What is 'X' in the given table of Nutritional values of animal products?
| Animal products | Per cent (%) Nutrients | |||||
| Fat | Protein | Sugar | Minerals | X | Vitamins | |
| Milk (cow) | 3.60 | 4.00 | 4.50 | 0.70 | 87.20 | B1, B2, B12, D, E |
| Egg | 12.00 | 13.00 | - | 1.00 | 74.00 | B12, D |
| Meat | 3.60 | 21.00 | - | 1.10 | 74.20 | B2, B12 |
| Fish | 2.50 | 19.00 | - | 1.30 | 77.20 | Niacin, D, A |
Which of the following reaches the small intestine indigested?
Why are vitamins called micronutrients?
Which nutrients protect our body against diseases?(Carbohydrates/Vitamins/Fats)
How can we make a chapati from a ball of dough?
Why after eating lunch or dinner we want to sleep?
What are the complex substances of food? Give two examples.
How does eating fibrous foods help in treating constipation?
Choose some food from the picture below and plan three healthy meals for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
List some food items with respective columns according to the nutrients present in them.
| Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fat | Vitamins | Minerals |
Tocopherol or - tocopherol is also known as?
Night blindness is caused due to lack of vitamin E.
Fill in the blank with a suitable answer from the given words.
(Vitamin E, Fats, Carbohydrates)
Milk: Protein, Nuts: _____.
Explain the role of Vitamin E.
Nuts, seeds, and green leafy vegetables are a rich source of _____.
