Food Microbiology

Food and Nutrition

Food and Nutrients are the materials i.e., ingested through an organism and assimilated with the aid of the organism's cells to provide energy, preserve lifestyles, or stimulate increase. Food and Nutrition is the technology that interprets the interplay of vitamins and different substances in food on the subject of maintenance, boom, replica, fitness and disorder of an organism. It consists of meals intake, absorption, assimilation, biosynthesis, catabolism, and excretion.

Types of Nutrients:

1. Macronutrients

2. Micronutrients

3. Malnutrition