Carbohydrate

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Carbohydrate
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What do you need to know?

• What is carbohydrate.
• The different types
• The functions fo carbohydate
• Where it can be found
• Scottish dietary targets.

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Carbohydrate can be divided up into 3 groups

• ? Sugar
• Glucose Sucrose
• ? Starch
• Disacharides
• ? Cellulose

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Carbohydrate - Sugar
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Why do we need carbohydrate?

• To give us energy

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How?

• Sugar and starch provide us with the energy we
  need for all activities

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Starch can be found
Pasta, Rice , Potatos Bread
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Cellulose can be found

• In virtually all foods that are from plant
  origin.
• Dietary Fibre
• (Breakfast cereal, Porridge oats, Wholemeal bread)

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Meals that are high in carbohydrate

• Beans on Toast
• Chilli
• Pasta Bake
• Baked Potato

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Scottish dietary targets

• Bread intake to increase by 45 (Mainly using
  wholemeal and brown bread)
• Breakfast cereals Average intake to double from
  present intake.
• Total complex carbohydrates increase average
  non sugar carbohydrates by 25

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Too much ..Carbohydrate will be converted
into fat and stored under the skin leading to
weight gain!