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Nutrition/healthy eating Essential Nutrients NUTRITION AND HEALTHY EATING Essential nutrients There are seven essential nutrients that we must include in our diet, in order to remain healthy. These are listed below. In this series of lessons,
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There are seven essential nutrients that we must include in our diet, in
lessons, we will learn about each essential nutrient.
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Carbohydrates are found in the following foods.
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The main function of carbohydrate foods is to provide energy. Carbohydrates are made up of building blocks of glucose and other simple sugars. Glucose is the main energy source used in the human
energy per gram. Carbohydrate foods are often a rich source of fibre, vitamins and minerals.
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There are three different types of carbohydrate in the human diet.
Rice Pasta Cereals Bread Beans/pulses Noodles
Sugar Honey Treacle Syrup Jam/marmalade Milk sugar (lactose)
Vegetables Fruit
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You can see the carbohydrate-rich foods on the Eatwell Guide – fruit and vegetables (the NSPs) are in the green section, and starchy carbohydrates are in the yellow section. Foods high in sugar are not included in a health diet, but are added in small amounts, shown in the bottom left corner.
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Do you think you can find carbohydrates in your diet? Using the Essential Nutrients worksheet, write down a typical breakfast, lunch and tea that you often eat – it could be what you ate today, or yesterday, or a favorite
find examples of the following types of carbohydrate, and make a note of them.
Starchy c hy carb arboh
drates tes
Non-star starch ca h carbo rbohy hydr drates ( tes (fibr fibre-ri rich h foo
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Suga gars
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All types of carbohydrate are made up of simpler units of sugars, known as monosaccharides.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5q8NXSDV0s
Sugars, fruits and sweet tasting foods are made of simple sugars (monosaccharides and disaccharides), and starchy carbohydrates and fibre-rich foods contain chains of sugars, called
animation to find out more.
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It is recommended that approximately 50% of our diet is made up of carbohydrate foods, but this should come mostly from starchy carbohydrates, and vegetables and fruit (the fibre, or NSPs). No more than 5% of
from added sugar. Starchy carbohydrates (also called complex carbohydrates) take longer to digest and provide energy for longer; sugars are absorbed quickly and give a quick spurt of energy.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zf339j6/articles/zfqg4qt
Find out more about carbohydrates, and watch the short animations at this web link. The first one talks about carbohydrates in sport, and the second shows how large polysaccharide molecules are broken down into sugars during digestion. Then you can have a go at the quiz on this weblink!
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Now see if you can remember the answers to these carbohydrate questions in this quick fire classroom quiz!
in our diet?
we should include in our diet?