Animal Nutrients: meat, milk, cress oil, eggs, cheese, yoghurt provided by animals. It is mostly protein-based.
Vegetable Nutrients: These are the nutrients obtained from plants that are grown in vineyards and gardens and then come to our table as food. Dishes made with cabbage, wheat, leek, artichoke, carrot, eggplant, pepper are included in the group of vegetable foods. Of course, as well as apples, pears, watermelons, bananas, fruit varieties such as peaches are also vegetable foods. All foods made from plants are included in the plant food group.
Mineral Nutrients: Apart from plant and animal nutrients, we also take substances such as water and salt to our bodies and are known as mineral nutrients. These substances are also found in the body of living things and are readily available in nature.
Food types are divided into different groups according to their functions in the body. Now let’s examine them.
Foods According to Their Duties
Constructive and restorative nutrients: these nutrients allow the repair of worn cells of living things. These are foods that contain protein, fat and carbohydrates. Again, water and mineral nutrients in the constructive and repair group.
Energizing nutrients: these are fats, carbohydrates and proteins. At the moment of hunger, first carbohydrate is consumed, then fat, then protein.
Regulatory nutrients: nutrients that regulate metabolic events in cells.
Nutrients according to their structure: It is a class of nutrients consisting of organic nutrients and inorganic nutrients.
Food Types and Properties
Carbohydrates: consists of carbon and hydrogen. It is first produced as a result of photosynthesis. The excess is stored as starch in plants and in humans as glycogen. It is used in special reactions. Vegetable foods are abundant.
Oils: carbon is formed by the combination of hydrogen and oxygen elements. The smallest structure of oils is fatty acid and glycerol. Provides heat insulation in the body. It participates in the structure of cell membrane, hormones and vitamins.
Proteins: carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen elements. The smallest building block units are amino acids. It is found in animal foods such as milk, meat and eggs. It participates in the structure of vitamins and hormones.
Vitamins: effects on the functioning of the organs increases the body resistance and provides protection against diseases. It is usually taken from vegetable foods. Regulates chemical events in the body. Some are produced by the human body, while others are imported. Diseases may occur in the absence of certain vitamins.
Minerals: found in the form of minerals on earth. Ready to be taken from nature. Provides bone, tooth and muscle development. Acts in the study of enzymes.
Water: the body needs the most food. It is necessary for the occurrence of chemical events in the body. It is effective in digestion, absorption, transport and excretion of foods.