food and digestion quiz

 Food and digestion quizzes.
(Online  quizzes, with exam standards for GCE, necta, and GCSE and A level candidates with different difficulties levels).

              We eat to live. man can not survive without eating(nutrition), otherwise you won't be termed living. On the course of taking this quiz, you will come across things like digestion and the digestive system which we all need to have a knowledge of at least in order to control our diet as well as know which food is more nutritious for healthiness. 

        Food is any substance consumed to provide nutritional support for an organism physical health. Food is usually from plants, animals or fungal origin, and contains essential nutrients, such as carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, or minerals, these nutrients provide so much than we can ever imagine in our system.    Food can also be defined simply as what people and animals eat to live which usually comes from plants and other animals . It is eaten by living things to provide energy and nutrition , and also contain the nutrients that people and animals need to be healthy.

The 5 food groups are;

-Fruit and vegetables. -Starchy food. -Dairy. -Protein and -Fat.

All these food groups are taken into the system through digestion using the digestive system.  The digestive system is aimed at converting the foods we eat into their simplest and most absorbable forms, like glucose (sugars), amino acids (that make up protein) or fatty acids (that make up fats). The broken down food is  absorbed into the bloodstream from the small intestine and the nutrients are carried to each cell in the body   where they function in so many ways.

Digestion of food involve; -the mixing of food,  -its movement through the digestive tract, and - the chemical breakdown of the large molecules of food into smaller molecules.  Digestion is always such that it begins in the mouth, when we chew and swallow, and is completed in the small intestine. 

Students should always note that exams are usually set from this topic , therefore you should take the quiz below and start testing your knowledge on the topic, each quiz is made up of 15 to 20 questions which i bet will be of much help to you. For more quizzes on biology, click  biology , and visit our website at gcequiz.com for even more quizzes on different subjects. 

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