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🥗Intro to Nutrition
Key Terms

265 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your Intro to Nutrition exam

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24-hour dietary recall

A

Acid-base balance
Added sugars
Albumin
Alcohol consumption
Alcohol intake
Ancel Keys
Android fat distribution
Anthropometric Measurements
Antioxidants

B

Beriberi
Beta-carotene
Beta-oxidation
Blood Clotting
Blood pressure
Blood sugar
Blood sugar levels
Blood volume maintenance
Body weight
Bone Structure
Brain development

C

Carrier-mediated transport
Celiac disease
Children under five
Chronic inflammation
Citric acid cycle
Clinical assessments
Cognitive Decline
Collagen
Colorectal cancer
Commercial weight loss programs
Community-Supported Agriculture
Competitive absorption
Conditionally essential amino acids
Consumer Right to Know
Continuous glucose monitors
Copper toxicity
Creatine
Crohn's disease
Cruciferous Vegetables

D

Dairy
Dairy products
DASH Diet
Deamination
Dietary fiber
Dietary Reference Intake
DRIs - Dietary Reference Intakes
Dysphagia

E

Elevated waist circumference
Emotional Eating
Energy Storage
Enriched Foods
Enzyme cofactor
EPA
Essential Amino Acids
Essential Fatty Acids
Essential Nutrients
Evidence-based guidelines

F

Fat distribution
Fatty Liver Disease
Fiber
Fluoride
Folic acid
Food allergy
Food diary
Food Exchange System
Food Fortification
Food frequency questionnaires
Food literacy
Food marketing
Food safety audit
Food variety
Food vulnerability
Fortification
Fortified foods