FUTURE TRENDS IN FOOD TECHNOLOGY
PERSONALIZED NUTRITION AND HEALTH
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Food provides energy
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Food and eating have significant social meaning.
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We all have emotional needs, such as need for security, love and affection.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The first function of the food is to provide energy. The body needs energy to sustain the involuntary processes essential for continuance of life, to carry out professional, household and recreational activities, to convert food ingested into usable nutrients in the body, to grow and to keep warm.
Detailed explanation-2: -As was stated above, the three functions of food are: nutrition absorption, satisfying psychological needs, and physical adjustment.
Detailed explanation-3: -To provide energy needed to keep the body breathing and alive, for movement and warmth, and for growth and repair of tissues. Some starch and sugar is changed to body fat.
Detailed explanation-4: -The actual amount of energy released by oxidation of 1g of the respiratory substrate in the body is the physiological value. The physiological value of carbohydrates is 4 kcal/g.