Food, Matter and Energy

1. As a result of looking at food labels, what did you learn about food?
2. Look at the ingredients of one human food label. Write down the food name. What ingredients came from animals?
3. What ingredients in the above food label came from plants?
4. What similarities and differences did you notice between the human food and pet food labels you looked at?
5. Choose an animal/insect from the ecosystem walk. What do you think it eats? Explain what you think it gets from its food.

On the human food label:

1. How do we find the energy (calories) per serving? We find the energy preserving to get the nutrients from the ground out of plants.
2. How do we find the matter (carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, minerals)?     We find the matter by looking at what part of the plant has the most nutrients.
3. Where can we locate the list of ingredients?   We can find the Ingredients by looking on a food label at home or at a grocery store.

On the pet food label:

1. Where can we locate the list of ingredients?    By looking at the side of the package or at the back of the package to see where and what the ingredients are and what they have in the ingredients.
2. How do we find the percentage of different types of matter in the food?       We can look at the ingredients on the food label.

Reflect & Synthesize:
Answer the following questions in your blog post. Remember to have at least one follow-up sentence for each question, when possible.

1. What does food provide to animals, including humans?
2. Do the pet food and human food have the same nutrients? In what ways are they different?
3. Does a higher calorie count mean a food is better for pets to eat? What makes pet owners think that?
4. What is it in food that helps us repair our bodies and grow?
5. What in food helps us move and stay warm?
6. In what way does energy transfer when animals eat food?
7. Look at the nutrition label below for milk. How much energy is in the food?
8. What matter is in the food?

1. What I learned about food is that food is made of different ingredients.  Food helps the body for every living thing around us and in the world. Different kinds of food are needed for healthy nutrition for a person.

2. Ritz crackers.  No ingredients came from animals.

3. All the ingredients came from plants except salt and calcium phosphate. They are chemicals. The ingredients from plants are enriched wheat flour, granola oil, palm oil, sugar, high fructose corn syrup, soy lecithin, and something called natural flavor.

4. One similarity I saw in the human food label and in the pet food label was they both had calcium and vitamin in them. One difference I saw in the human food label is that the human food label had way less calcium then the pet food label. Another difference in the human food label and in the pet food label was that  the pet food label had way more ingredients in it then the human food label would ever have.

5. The insect I saw when we went on our nature walk was an earthworm and what an earthworm gets out of it's food when it eats is nutrients from the soil. How the worm gets its nutrients from small things of soil, such as like decaying roots and leaves. Animal manures are an important part of food source they have so many good stuff for the earthworm to eat from the soil like they eat living organisms from the soil like nematodes, protozoans, rotifers, bacteria and fungi from the soil to get nutrients.







Answers:

1. Food provides energy to animals including humans.
2. It depends on the brand you by. The things put in pet food are not put in human food.Many pet foods contain weird ingredients like meat powder,  the extras from fruit and veggies and remaining fats from proteins. There for the nutrients is quietly different.
3. No, a higher calorie count does not make the food better. Some pet owners think that higher calorie counts com with more nutrients, but they don't.
4. Nutrients: healthy carbohydrates, proteins, healthy fats, vitamins in minerals.
5. carbohydrates, proteins, and fat.
6. energy breaks down the food to the nutrients.
7. 160 calories is the measurement of energy.
8. The matter of the food from the milk is water, sugar, carbohydrates, calcium, fat and some protein.