Transcript Food and Digestion

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Food and Digestion
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Food types
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Type
Found in
Uses
Carbohydrates
Bread, potatoes, cereal
Energy
Fats
Cream, butter, milk, oil
A store of energy
Proteins
Meat, fish, eggs
Building and repairing cells
Vitamins
Vegetables, cereal
Minerals
Meat, milk, cereal
Fibre
Fruit + veg, cereal
Make chemicals in body.
Keep you healthy.
Strong Teeth, Immune
system.
Keeps you regular!
Water
Water!
75% of the body is water
The digestive system
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The whole point of digestion is to break down our food so
that we can get the bits we need from it…
The main foods
affected are
CARBOHYDRATES –
these are broken down
into GLUCOSE
Enzymes
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Enzymes are chemicals produced by the body to help
_______. When they react with food they break it down
into ______ pieces which can then pass into the ______:
Carbohydrase breaks _______ (a
carbohydrate) down into glucose:
Protease breaks _______ down
into amino acids:
Lipase breaks fats (_____) down
into fatty acids and glycerol:
Words – blood, lipids, proteins, digestion, starch, smaller
The small intestine
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This is where the “small parts” are absorbed into our blood
stream…
Everything else
passes into the
large intestine
Glucose gets
absorbed into
the blood