UNICAMP 2022 - 1a Fase - Questão 65 - O Programa Mundial de Alimentos da Organização das Nações Unid

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2020. In Brazil, one of the world's largest food producers, four out of ten families did not have daily, regular, and permanent access to a sufficient quantity of food in 2017 and 2018. Hunger is declared when malnutrition is widespread and when people begin to die from lack of sufficient and nutritious food. The diversity of foods ingested ensures nutrients for the optimal performance of the body's functions. (Source: UNITED NATIONS [UN]. World Food Program. What is famine? Available at https://www.wfp.org/stories/what-is-f.... Accessed on 08/06/2021.) Choose the correct alternative about nutrients and their importance for human health. a) The hydrolysis of essential carbohydrates provides amino acids for the formation of proteins, which have a building function in different tissues. b) Lipids contain deoxyriboses and fatty acids, constitute plasma membranes, and participate in the synthesis of cholesterol in the body. c) Mineral salts are inorganic substances essential for various functions of the body, such as the synthesis of glycogen, proteins, and vitamins. d) Vitamins act as antioxidants and are energy substances whose composition provides the body with carbohydrates used in cellular respiration.