What are important functions of food?

Answer 1

Describe the three functions of food.

1. To provide the chemical constituents of the body

2. To provide the energy for life

3. To be pleasurable, including satisfying hunger; being appealing in its smell, taste, sight, and texture; and being associated with enjoyable social activities

Answer 2

Food provides organisms with nutrition for:

1.Growth

2.Energy

3.Enzymes

4.Repair of damaged tissues

5.Reproduction

Food also gives pleasure. It is produced (grown or prepared) in exchange for money or other products (economics), and it is used in religious or spiritual functions (communion would be one example).

Food provides energy for our body, materials for growth of new tissues and repair for damaged tissues, materials for maintenance of good health and to fight diseases.

Answer 3

To supply your body with energy, nutrients, vitamins and fats at a necessary rate for survival. This reaction where your body extracts these elemants from food is called digestion. If you dont know this, you have a case of Down syndrome! Haha powned.

Answer 4

Your body needs food for nutrition to aid in growth and give you energy and strength.

Answer 5

i really don't know the 3 purposes of food.

please help me find the answer.

Answer 6

1st reason, the food will be much better absorbed.

2nd reason, foods without being firstly digested by the stomach wouldn't move in your digestive system.

Answer 7

1) To survive

2) To gain energy

Answer 8

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