Tag: general functions of food

• Five components of food that should be a part of our everyday diet. Food is a basic necessity of life. We need it to live, gain energy and promote growth. Most people want to know what they should eat or include in their diet, in order to remain fit and healthy.
•  A well-balanced diet consisting of fruits, vegetables, proteins, grains, and dairy products is required for a person’s overall well-being. 
• Thus, option B is correct and other options are wrong.

Cutting also raises the respiration rate, which results in sugars inside produce being broken down and carbon dioxide released.
 This can result in faster spoilage as well as a change in the taste and texture of the produce. Lower temperatures help slow respiration, so pre-cut produce should be kept refrigerated.
The three factors that lead to nutrient loss are heat, oxygen, and light. Hence,  a slice of a fruit is the food items which will not provide energy after it is consumed.

• Food is essential for all living organisms.
• The food we eat contains the nutrients that our bodies need to replace worn-out cells, stay healthy and stay strong.
• It is the same for every living organism. Food comes in many different forms, and plants and animals have special organs or parts that absorb the nutrients from the food we eat.
  
  Hence, the correct option is B.

Carbohydrates are the major energy yielding macromolecules. Our food mainly consists of carbohydrates. The carbohydrates can be simple monosaccharides or disaccharides or complex polysaccharides. Cellulose, glucose, sucrose, starch are all various types of carbohydrates.

1. Functional food is food given an additional function by adding new ingredients or more of existing ingredients. It contains traits purposely bred into existing edible plants, such as purple or gold potatoes having enriched anthocyanin or carotenoid contents, respectively
2. .Functional foods may be "designed to have physiological benefits and/or reduce the risk of chronic disease beyond basic nutritional functions, and may be similar in appearance to conventional food and consumed as part of a regular diet".Hence, functional foods include whole foods, modified foods, and fortified foods.
   

Plants are stationary or fixed. On the other hand, animals move around in search of food. Therefore animals consume more energy than plants.

Nutrition is the science that interprets the interaction of nutrients and other substances in food in relation to maintenance, growth, reproduction, health and disease of an organism. It includes food intake, absorption, assimilation, biosynthesis, catabolism and excretion. 

Nutrition, nourishment or aliment, is the supply of materials - food - required by organisms and cells to stay alive. In science and human medicine, nutrition is the science or practice of consuming and utilizing foods. Nutrition also focuses on how diseases, conditions and problems can be prevented or lessened with a healthy diet.