Question

Mention five steps involved in the process of human nutrition
(1 mark)

Answer 1

Nutrition is the process by which an organism assimilates food and uses it for growth and maintenance.

Five steps involved in the process of nutrition are:

1. Ingestion: Taking in food, chewing and swallowing it.
2. Digestion: Conversion of complex food into simpler absorbable form
3. Absorption: Absorbing digested food
4. Assimilation: Utilization of digested food by body tissues
5. Egestion: Removal of undigested food from the body.