“Nutrients”  

Nutrient

  Nutrients are welltrient substances that an organism needs to live and grow, or as used in an organism's metabolism. Nutrients are the components that build and repair tissues, give heat and energy, and regulate body processes.
  Nutrients include protein, carbohydrate, fat, fiber, sodium, as well as vitamins and minerals, whereas other substances, implies that a substance other than a nutrient that has a nutritional or physiological effect.
  Nutrients needed in large quantities by the body are called macronutrients; micronutrients are required in only small quantities.
Examples of nutrients include:

macronutrients

micronutrients

mineral nutrients

Examples of substances that can play a role as a nutrients include:

choline myo-inositol

diiodine dioxygen

folic acid taurine

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