Question

Q10. Classify the following food item into carbohydrates, fats and
protein
sweet potato, ground nuts, potato, sugarcane, nuts, gram, milk,
mdong, butter, ghee, soya bean, cream, wheat, paneer, nice, bajra.​

Answer 1

Answer:

sweet potatoes- carbohydrates

ground nut- carbohydrates and fats

potato - carbohydrates and fats

sugarcane- fats and protein

nuts - carbohydrates and fats

gram- protein

milk - carbohydrates

what is mean by mdong ?

butter - fats

ghee - carbohydrates and fats

soya beans - fats and protein

cream - fats

wheat - carbohydrates and fats

paneer - carbohydrates and fats

rice - fats

bajra - carbohydrates and fats

Answer 2

Classification of food items into carbohydrates, fats and protein.

Carbohydrates:

• Carbohydrates are widely found in healthy as well as unhealthy food.
• Carbohydrates are biomolecules which consists are carbon, hydrogen and oxygen atoms.

• Usually with a hydrogen-oxygen atom ratio of 2:1. The empirical formula of carbohydrates is Cx(H2O)y where x and y = 3 or more.

Fats:

• Fats are an important type of nutrient that we are required to take up in our diet.
• Fats are of two types saturated and unsaturated fats.
• A fat molecule is made up of a glycerol backbone and three fatty acid tails.

Proteins:

• Fats are complex molecules that are one of the most important nutrients in our diet.
• Proteins are made up of many building blocks which are known as amino acids. Our body needs dietary protein to supply amino acids.
• A linear sequence of amino acids makes up proteins. There are twenty amino acids that makeup protein.

Classification of the following food items into their respective source of nutrients are:

• Sweet potato - Carbohydrates
• Ground Nuts - Carbohydrates, Fats
• Potato - Carbohydrates
• Sugarcane - Carbohydrates
• Nuts - Proteins, fats
• Gram - Protein, fats
• Milk - Protein, fats
• Moong - Protein
• Butter - Protein, fats
• Ghee - Protein, fats
• Soya bean - Protein, fats
• Cream - Protein, fats
• Wheat - Carbohydrates
• Paneer - Protein, fats
• Rice - Carbohydrates
• Bajra - Carbohydrates

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