The six essential elements of food

Our life is not possible without The. A robust, disease-free, and healthy body is needed for daily activities and movement. Food is what we eat to maintain a healthy body. Although we eat a lot of food all day, not all of it works for us. As much as food is functional, it nourishes the body. So today, we discussed six essential components of food, different forms, and their function.

Different functions of food

• Body formation and growth and erosion.
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• Providing heat energy and performance to the body.
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• Keep the body disease-free.
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• Helping the sick body to heal.
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• Food category by job

1.Energizing foods’

A Prominent role is to keep the body fresh and active by producing energy and heat. Strength is required for the body’s internal functions such as breathing, heart, and other bodily functions, digestion, excretion, and daily life functions. The foods that provide energy are:

• Cereal foods (such as rice, wheat, corn, sorghum, etc.)
• Main foods (such as round potatoes, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, cassava, etc.)
• Oily foods (such as all kinds of oils, ghee, meat fats, etc.)
• Sugar, molasses, and sweet foods

2. Foods that replenish body composition, growth, and decay

All these foods work in the human body to build the body structure or build the body, increase the body, and compensate for the body’s loss. Food obtained from vegetable sources—all kinds of pulses, Peas, Bean seed, jackfruit seed, Nuts, etc.

Food from animal sources

• Eggs
• Milk
• Fish
• Meat

3. Disease resistant food

The prominent role of these foods is to increase the body’s resistance to disease to protect the body from various diseases and illnesses. Disease-resistant cheap food includes Colored vegetable Fruits.

Six essential components of food

• Carbohydrates (Sources – Rice, Wheat, Maize, Chira, Muri, Sugar, Molasses, Potatoes, and other root foods)
• Non-vegetarian (source – fish, meat, eggs, milk, pulses, peas, bean seeds, jackfruit seeds, nuts, etc.)
• Fatty foods (sources – oil, ghee, butter, fats, etc.)
• Food or vitamins (source – colorful vegetables and fruits, eggs, milk, liver, etc.) Mineral salts (source – colored vegetables and fruits, eggs, milk, liver, meat, small fish, etc.) Safe water (water, fruit juice, beverages) Some of the main components of the diet Starch or sugars
• Non-vegetarian Affection Some secondary components of the diet
• Food life or vitamins Mineral salt Safe water

Work, source, and daily requirement of food items per capita

1.The work of starch or Sugar

Provides heat to the body. Helps in the burning of oils/fats. Helps to do the main work of meat

Source

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• Wheat
• Corn
• Sugar, molasses Potatoes Sweet potatoes Kachu, etc.

Daily requirement per capita (edible) About 50-60 percent of the total required food energy.

2. The work of meat

Builds and enhances the body. Increases immunity. Provides heat to the body. It helps in the biochemical process in the body.

Source

Animal sources such as fish, meat, milk, eggs, liver, Vegetable sources include soybeans, jackfruit seeds, bean seeds, pulses, nuts, peas, etc. Daily requirement per capita (edible)

• 1 gram per kg body weight (for adults)
• 2-3 grams per kg body weight (for four-year-old child)
• 1.8 grams per kg body weight (up to 4-18 years of age)
• 1.5 grams per kg body weight (for pregnant and maternity women)

3. The work of affection

Provides energy to the body, keeps skin smooth, makes food delicious and helps oil or fat-soluble vitamins be used in the body.

Source

Vegetable sources include soybean oil, mustard oil, sesame oil, sunflower oil, nuts, dalda, coconut (dried), etc. Daily requirement per capita (edible) About 35-40 grams (for adults)

We hope that this article will help you understand the six essential components of food, its different forms, and its functions.