Water minerals and health - Mineral overview

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What is the difference between vitamins and minerals?

Vitamins contain carbon it is a organic molecule,
minerals do not contain carbon it is a anorganic molecule

What are the mayor minerals?

more then 5 gram present in body
  1. Ca, calcium
  2. P, phosphorus
  3. K, potassium
  4. S, sulfur
  5. Na, sodium
  6. Cl, cloride
  7. Mg, magnesium

What is paracelsus law?

The dose ditermons if something is toxic.
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What is the term bioavailability for minerals?

Many minerals can not be absorbed by the body since they are bound to other components.
The term bioavailability describes the extent to which ingested minerals or other food components are absorbed and thereby available to the body.

How do animal and plant food compere in mineral bioavailability?

Plant foods have a lower mineral bioavailability as compared to animal foods

How can low mineral bioavailability be caused?

  1. The chemical form of the nutrient in food and/pr nature of the food matrix.
  2. Plant foods are rich is negatively charged compounds that tightly bind to cations
  3. Pre-treatment of foods (processing or preporation)

What does phytate, oxalate and diatery fiber do to mineral availablity?

It limits it,
B) Phytate is known to bind dietary cationic minerals and inhibit their absorption

C) Oxalate is known to bind dietary cationic minerals and inhibit their absorption

D) Dietary fiber is known to bind dietary cationic minerals and inhibit their absorption

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