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| Earliest phase in digestion. Brain thinks about and prepares digestive organs for food. |
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- Bitter
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- Umami
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| Savory taste due to glutamic acid |
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| small chemicals that speed up body processes but remain unchanged. |
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| Waves of squeezing/pushing contractions that move food, chyme and feces through the GI tract |
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| manufactures, holds and secretes digestive enzymes in their inactive foms |
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| What would happen if digestive enzymes were activated in the pancreas? |
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| The enzymes would digest the pancreas |
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| Simple carbs are made up of |
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4 monosaccharides
3 disaccharides
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| have 2 joined sugar molecules |
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| What are the 3 most common monosaccharides? |
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- Glucose
- Fructose
- Galactose
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| Chemical bond easily digested by enzymes in the intestine |
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| Chemical bonds that cannot be easily digested |
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| Nutrient compound consisting of long chains of glucose molecules |
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| Digestive enzyme that breaks maltose into glucose |
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| Digestive enzyme that breaks sucrose into glucose and fructose |
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| A digestive enzyme that breaks lactose into glucose and galactose |
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| Complex carbs that contain 3-10 monosaccharides |
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| A polysaccharide stored in plants |
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| Most abundant sugar molecule in our diet; good energy source |
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| Sweetest natural sugar, found in fruit and high fructose corn syrup |
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| Does not occur alone in foods; binds with glucose to form lactose |
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| 3 Types of Lipids found in our bodies |
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- Triglycerides
- Phospholipids
- Sterols
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Omega-6 fatty acids
Found in vegetable and nut oils |
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Omega-3 Fatty acids
Found in shrimp, dark leafy vegetables |
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| Order of organs in digestive tract |
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- Mouth
- Esophagus
- Stomach
- Small intestine
- Large intestine
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| Major function of large intestine |
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| Absorbs water, short-chain fatty acids and electrolytes from digestive mass |
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| contain hundreds to thousands of glucose molecules |
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| Does any carb digestion occur in the stomach? |
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| Hard to digest, most of it pases through as fiber |
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| Where does carb digestion occur? |
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| Where are all monosaccharides absorbed into? |
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| The mucosal cells lining the small intestine |
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| What happens to excess carbs in the body? |
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Stored as glycogen in the liver and saved for future energy needs
Once capacity is reached, excess glucose is stored as fat in adipose tissue |
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| Where does fat digestion mostly occur? |
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| What happens to monosaccharides in the small intestine? |
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| They are absorbed by the small intestine and enter the blood stream |
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| What enzymes break down disaccharides into monosaccharides? |
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| Maltase, sucrase and lactase |
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| What happens to monosaccharides after they enter the bloodstream? |
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| They are converted into glucose |
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| What stimulates the secretion of bicarbonate? |
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| Which digestion hormones can be found in the small intestine? |
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| What does the hormone CCK do? |
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| Stimulates the secretion of pancreatic digestive hormones |
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What does the hormone GIP do?
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| Inhibits gastric acid secretion |
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