Components of Food Notes

Topics :

- Introduction

- Components of food

- How our body uses carbohydrates?

- Water

- Deficiency diseases

- Deficiency of vitamins

- Deficiency of minerals

- Deficiency of water in the body

Introduction

INTRODUCTION

• Food is any substance which is consumed to provide nutritional support to our body.

• The science of food that deals with the dynamic process in which the food consumed is digested; nutrients are absorbed; distributed to body tissues for utilization and wastes are disposed off the body is called nutrition.

How our body uses carbohydrates?

HOW OUR BODY USES CARBOHYDRATES?

• Carbohydrates consumed by us are broken into simple sugars in our digestive system which are passed into the blood stream.