Answer:
Nutrients are substances contained in food, which are essential for the life of the body.
Food gives us different types of nutrients:
Explanation:
Minerals
:
They are the inorganic chemical elements of the diet. Some are necessary in large quantities (calcium, phosphorus, sodium, potassium, ...) and others in small quantities (trace elements: selenium, zinc, copper, ...)
Fats or lipids:
They are nutrients that mainly provide energy to the body, facilitate the transport of some vitamins and are part of some hormones and cell membranes. They are found in both plant and animal foods.
Proteins:
They are chains of amino acids, which the body mainly uses to build and repair tissues. They are found in foods of animal origin and also to a lesser extent in foods of plant origin.
Vitamins
:
They are organic compounds that people require in very small quantities but they are not able to synthesize by themselves. Many vitamins are precursors of coenzymes, compounds that facilitate metabolic reactions.
Water:
Water is the main component of our body. The human body has 75% water at birth and about 60% in adulthood. About 60% of this water is inside the cells and the rest is the one that circulates in the blood and nourishes the tissues.
Fiber:
Dietary fiber is the edible part of plants that is resistant to digestion and absorption in the small intestine, with complete or partial fermentation in the colon and that promotes physiological beneficial effects. It has several important functions: they absorb water, increase stool volume, accelerate intestinal transit.
