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Nutrient
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Nutrients are the building blocks of food.They are needed for you to live and grow, in fact for everything your body does - they keep you alive! Your body takes nutrients out of the food you eat using digestion and then uses them for different jobs. The main types of nutrients are carbohydrates, fats, proteins and fibre.