2.  Nutrients: › Substances that helps our body process, grow and repair › Found in food › Provide energy  Essential Nutrients: › Protein, Fat, Carbohydrates, Vitamins, Minerals and Water

3.  Builds and repairs  4 Kcal/gram  Amino Acids/ Complete Proteins › Chicken, cheese or eggs  Incomplete Proteins › Beans, seeds or rice

4.  If I ate a spoonful of peanut butter that had 7 grams of protein, how many calories would I have consumed? › Reminder: Protein has 4 Kcal/gram

5. What food groups can you find protein in?

6.  Long term energy  9 Kcal/gram  Healthy: › Monounsaturated (olive oil), Polyunsaturated (nuts and seeds) and Fatty Acids (salmon)  Not Healthy: › Trans Fat (baked or fried0, Saturated Fat (animal products)) and cholesterol (animal)

7.  In the same spoonful of peanut butter, 16 grams of fat is provided. How many calories in the peanut butter are from fat? › Reminder: Fat has 9 Kcal/gram

8. What food groups can you find fat in?

9.  Immediate energy  4 Kcal/gram  Simple: broken down and digested quickly › Sugars, fruit juice and milk  Complex: longer to digest; fiber › Vegetables, whole grains and oatmeal

10.  The very same spoonful of peanut butter also provides carbohydrates, 7 grams of it. How many calories are attributed to carbohydrates? › Reminder: Carbohydrates have 4 Kcal/gram

11. What food groups can you find carbohydrates in?

12.  Many foods provide more than one nutrient. Peanut butter, for example, provides protein, fat and carbohydrates.  If 7 grams of protein, 7 grams of carbohydrates, and 16 grams of fat were consumed in one spoonful of peanut butter, how many calories were consumed total?

13.  Assist body with processes  No caloric value  Fat soluble: vitamins that dissolve in fat and are stored in body › A, D, E and K  Water soluble: need to dissolve in water before the body can store them › Vitamin C and B Vitamins

14. What food groups can you find vitamins in?

15.  Regulate chemical reactions  No caloric value  Macro: large amounts › Calcium  Trace: small amounts › Iron and Zinc

16. What food groups can you find minerals in?

17.  Waste removal, body regulation and blood formation  No caloric value  6-8 glasses a day

18.  Fat, Protein and Carbohydrates provide energy  What food groups are each of these nutrients strongly associated with?  Provide three healthy food choices for each of the three nutrients mentioned

19. In which food groups would you place your food choices?