Organic or Inorganic?

Fish

water

eggs

Wood

brownies

olive oil

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salt

whole wheat bread

nail

fried chicken

Organic Compounds

• Have high percentage of carbon
• Can be burned

Inorganic Compounds

• Has a low % of carbon in its mass
• cannot be burned (can be melted at extremely high temperatures)

Inorganic Compounds

• Has a low % of carbon in its mass
• cannot be burned (can be melted at extremely high temperatures)

strawberry yogurt

apple

carrot sticks

salad

pineapple

Questions to be Answered

• What makes up a healthy diet?
• What happens in the body if too much fat, carbs or protein is eaten?
• Why do people become thin if they do not eat enough high energy food?

Nutrient

• a chemical needed by the body to stay healthy
• 5 nutrients
• 70% of our body weight is water
• Fibre also needed by body

List all of the nutrients you know of.

Purpose of a Nutrient

• to provide energy
• to provide materials for making chemicals that the body needs to make cells and other parts of the body

Carbohydrates

• made of Carbon(C), hydrogen(H), oxygen(O)
• atoms of these molecules are linked together to form sugar (mostly glucose)--->starch
• Example of Sugar is cellulose

Fats

• Made from C, H and a few atoms of O
• Two kinds of fat:
• Solid: Ex. Lard (animal fat)
• Liquid: Ex. Palm Oil (plant fat)

Proteins

• Made from C.H,O,N
• some also have Sulfur
• Atoms form to make amino acids
• Chains of amino acids form proteins

Vitamins

• needed in small amounts
• fat soluble and water soluble
• you need these to grow

Minerals

• Body needs 20 different minerals
• minerals have different uses without them our body would not function

Fiber

• moves food through the body
• helps food keep water in the digested food so it can pass through the body easier

What are nutrients?

• Read about them and fill in this worksheet
• pages 24-28

How can we test to see what nutrient is in what food?