Food and Nutrition

Food is any edible organic substance on which living things feed for energy development and growth. Every food taken into the body has nutrients that is needed by the body for growth and development.

For instance, maize, yam, cassava and rice are all carbohydrates. The end-product of carbohydrate after digestion is glucose.

This glucose is needed by the human body during blood circulation. So, the absence of carbohydrates will result in the absence of glucose and this will cause a deficiency in growth and development.

This makes it very important to always eat a balanced diet. Balanced diet has all the food nutrients in their right proportion. So, all the nutrients in the food will be used by the body after digestion. There are various types of food nutrients.