FOOD SCI 120 Study Guide - Nutrient, Food Energy
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At the end of this lesson, you can now: put the exam dates on your calendar, describe a nutrient, essential nutrient and deficiency (related to food, list the 3 major functions of dietary nutrients and associate dietary nutrients with each function, distinguish organic nutrients from inorganic nutrients, define a calorie; and describe a food calorie, describe how calories are measured and which food components provide calories (and how much, calculate the amount of calories in a given food, calculate % of calories from fat, define digestion and absorption, describe the features of the gi tract, and explain the phases of digestion and absorption, describe the fate of dietary nutrients (we will return to this topic later, list the three components that make up our energy requirements and describe each, calculate weight gain or weight loss based on consumption (caloric intake)
