Nutrition

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. Sweet white crystals added to food (plural) (6)
  2. 6. Constitution of the human body (5)
  3. 9. An essential structural component of living cells and source of energy for animals (plural) (13)
  4. 10. Sweet food that grows on plants (plural) (6)
  5. 12. Nutrient in meat and beans that builds muscle (plural) (8)
  6. 14. Rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates (4)
  7. 15. A natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch (4)
  8. 16. A complex carbohydrate found chiefly in seeds, fruits, tubers, roots and stem pith of plants (plural) (8)

Down

  1. 2. An amount of something available for use (6)
  2. 3. Any of a group of organic substances essential in small quantities to normal metabolism (plural) (8)
  3. 4. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light (7)
  4. 5. Food and nutrients the body needs to grow (9)
  5. 7. Clear liquid we drink that falls as rain (5)
  6. 8. Plant foods like carrots and broccoli (10)
  7. 11. A relatively small granular particle of a substance (plural) (6)
  8. 13. The act of putting something in working order again (6)