Chemical composition of essential nutrients and food sources..

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1.. Carbohydrates..

Chemically carbohydrates are made up of Carbon, hydrogen and oxygen arranged in 1:2:1 proportion.

🕳️🕳️Sources...

   Carbohydrates cab be obtained from all sweet fruit such as banana,apples mango ,dates and raisins.

The other sources of carbohydrates are grains (wheat, brown rice,oat, barley etc).

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2.... Proteins..

The building units of proteins ( amino acid)
Are made up of Carbon , hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen.
However,the number of arrangement of the elements in protein are different from that of carbohydrates and fats.
🕳️🕳️Sources:

           Eggs ,mil,meat, chicken,pulses,beans ,pease etc.

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3..lipids (fats and oils)
The building blocks of lipids are mainly
Composed of carbon hydrogen and oxygen. However they can also contain nitrogen sulpher and phosphorus but their number is very small.

🕳️🕳️Sources :

We get lipids from animal and plant sources.animal sources including meat ,milk , and it's products while plant source include oil extracting plants like mustard family.
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4.... Vitamin :

Vitamin have complex chemical structure they are made up of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. However each number of element varies in all Vitamin

🕳️🕳️ Sources:

The source of each vitamin is different .here keep it remember that one source of food may contain more than one vitamin.

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