NUTR3000 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Biological Value, Blood Sugar, Soybean
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Amino acids contain hydrogen, carbon, oxygen and nitrogen. Of the 20 amino acids required by the body, our body can make 11 amino acids. 9 have to be gained from the diet. Essential amino acids = those that we have to acquire from the diet. A protein has >100 amino acids (myosin, a key contractile protein found in muscle is comprised of over. Amino acids > protein > good for body. Proteins are manufactured from arrangements of amino acids. So if an amino acid is missing from your acid, then that protein cannot appear in your diet. Proteins allow the amino acids to enter the body. Biological value (bv) is a measure of the proportion of absorbed protein from a food which becomes incorporated into the proteins of the organism"s body. It summarises how readily the broken down protein can be used in protein synthesis in the cells of the organism.
