Nutrition

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light (7)
  2. 6. An essential structural component of living cells and source of energy for animals (12)
  3. 7. Greasy substance in food and body tissue (3)
  4. 8. Defense against financial failure (10)
  5. 9. A spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter (9)
  6. 12. An edible tuber native to South America (plural) (8)
  7. 15. Nutrient in meat and beans that builds muscle (7)
  8. 16. Erect bushy hairy annual herb having trifoliate leaves and purple to pink flowers (4)

Down

  1. 1. White drink that comes from cows (4)
  2. 3. The invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms and their multiplication which can lead (plural) (10)
  3. 4. Abnormal loss of bony tissue resulting in fragile porous bones attributable to a lack of calcium (12)
  4. 5. Bright light from the sun (8)
  5. 10. A deficiency of red blood cells (7)
  6. 11. The process of an individual organism growing organically (6)
  7. 13. Citrus fruit that shares its name with a color (plural) (7)
  8. 14. The power to do work or make things move (6)