Nutrients and Nutrition Basics

Ingestion, Digestion, Absorption, Assimilation, Egestion

Intake of food material inside the body through the mouth.

Absorption is the process of diffusion of digested food into blood and lymph.

<p>Assimilation is the conversion of absorbed simple food into the complex substances of the body.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Digestion is a physico-chemical process in which complex food material is converted into simple and diffusible food material with the help of enzymes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Energy and matter</p> Signup and view all the answers