How do proteins, lipids, and nucleic acids relate to the food pyramid?
1 Answer
The food pyramid classifies the food types into groups based on their content of lipids, proteins, carbohydrates, water, minerals, and vitamins.Nucleic acids are not concerned .
Explanation:
The biggest group which is the cereals one has a big amount of carbohydrates. The smallest one has a big amount of lipids, and in between comes the group that contains big amount of proteins.
All the fresh food that eat comes from living things, and all living things have cell membranes which have lipids and proteins, and nuclei which have nucleic acids, but some cells like the muscle cells have big amounts of proteins in the cytoplasm , and this is why meets are put in the food pyramid in the proteins section. Butter is not a fresh food, but rather a gathering of the fat from milk, so it is put in the group that contains lipids most.
This is a point to notice as processed food is not usually a balanced one like the fresh which comes directly from living things.
