Nutrition NBDHE exam with complete solutions 2024_2025.
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NBDHE
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NBDHE
Nutrients
Substances obtained from food and used by the body to promote growth, maintenance, or repair
Six classes of nutrients include
Carbohydrates
Proteins
Lipids
Vitamins
Minerals
Water
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Nutrition NBDHE exam with complete
solutions 2024/2025
Nutrients - ANSWER- Substances obtained from food and used by the body to
promote growth, maintenance, or repair
Six classes of nutrients include - ANSWER- Carbohydrates
Proteins
Lipids
Vitamins
Minerals
Water
Carbohydrates - ANSWER- Organic compounds made up of carbon, hydrogen
and oxygen
Provide most abundant energy during metabolism
Yield 4 kilocalories/gram
Include monosaccharides, disaccharides and complex polysaccharides
Glucose - ANSWER- Blood Sugar/Dextrose
1. Main fuel for brain and needed for RBCs
2. Major carbohydrate found in bloodstream
3. Sources include many foods, such as grapes, oranges, corn and carrots
Fructose - ANSWER- Levulose/Fruit Sugar
1. Sweetest Monosaccharide
2. Sources include fruits, honey, and corn syrup
, Galactose - ANSWER- Component of Milk Sugar
1. Body converts glucose to galactose in mammary tissue during lactation;
makes lactose in breast milk
2. Sources include milk/dairy products
Disaccharides - ANSWER- Double Sugars; made up of two monosaccharides
- Sucrose
- Lactose
- Maltose
Sucrose - ANSWER- Table Sugar - furnishes 1/3 of total COH intake in the average
western diet
1. Made up of glucose and fructose
2. Sources incude sugar beets, sugar cane or maple syrup, fruits and vegetables
Lactose - ANSWER- Milk Sugar
1. Made up of glucose and galactose
2. Sources include milk products
Maltose - ANSWER- Plant Sugar
1. Made up of 2 glucose molecules
2. Appears whenever starch is broken down
Starch - ANSWER- Plant storage form of glucose (amylase and amylopectin)
1. Nutritionally most important carbohydrate
2. Stores energy
3. Digestible/breaks down at a slow rate
4. Sources include rice, potatoes, pasta and legumes
Glycogen - ANSWER- Provides 12 to 24 hours of stored energy
1. Animal equivalent of starch
2. Provides a food storage system in animals/humans (glycogenesis)
a. In liver, it regulates blood sugar for brain
b. In muscle, it serves as an energy source for muscle contraction
3. Not significant as a food source
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