Food Composition: Vitamins and Minerals

What are the two types of vitamins?

Fat soluble and water soluble

What are examples of fat soluble vitamins?

ADEK

What are examples of water soluble vitamins?

Bs and C

What are the two types of minerals?

Macro and Micro

What are the macro minerals?

Calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, sodium, potassium

What are the micro minerals?

iron, zinc, copper, selenium

What do we use microminerals for?

cofactors in holoenzymes

What are meat good sources of?

B vitamins and iron and zinc

What are the three zero calorie nutrients?

vitamins, minerals, water

What is the difference between vitamins and minerals?

vitamins are organic and minerals are inorganic

What does organic mean?

contains carbon

What do both vitamins and minerals do?

regulate metabolic functions

What are enriched foods?

during processing they are lost and thus added back

What are fortified foods?

added that were not originally in food

What is the purpose of enriched or fortified foods?

to deliver nutrients to the general public in effort to deter certain nutrient deficiences

What was the first food ever fortified?

adding iodine to salt to combat goiter and cretinism in 1922

What foods are fortified?

milk - Vit A and D, Orange juice - calcium, Cereal - folate/B vitamins