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This question tests a core concept of human nutrition: Egg protein is considered high quality because it supplies all essential amino acids in favourable proportions and is highly digestible. The correct answer is Egg.
Egg protein is considered high quality because it supplies all essential amino acids in favourable proportions and is highly digestible. Complete proteins contain all essential amino acids; many animal foods and some plant foods such as soy meet this criterion. Sugar provides carbohydrate, butter mainly fat and apple mainly carbohydrate, fibre and micronutrients, not complete protein.
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The body needs carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, minerals and water. Dietary fibre also supports digestive and metabolic health. A balanced diet supplies these components in amounts suited to a person’s age, activity and physiological needs.
Competitive exams commonly test nutrient functions and sources, energy values, vitamin and mineral deficiencies, fat-soluble and water-soluble vitamins, balanced diets, and protein-energy malnutrition such as kwashiorkor and marasmus.
Learn each nutrient as a four-part link: its major dietary sources, principal function, characteristic deficiency and important excess effect. This method makes similar options easier to distinguish.
