VBC 702
Advanced Nutritional Biochemistry
2
Course Description
Dietary essentiality of carbohydrates and lipids.
Course Outline
Dietary essentiality of carbohydrates and lipids; Concepts; quality and biological value of proteins; Physiological function and biochemical mechanism of action of vitamins and inorganic nutrients; Metabolic interaction of nutrients; Proximate composition of food stuff; estimation of fibre; toxin additives; vitamins; trace elements and amino acids; Biochemical assessment of malnutrition adaptive responses to undernutrition; fibre in nutrition; protein energy malnutrition; Deficiency of zinc; selenium and some vitamins