NTRI 2000 FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS 2025/2026
1) Which organ will first receive sugars after they are absorbed into the blood?
a) Liver
b) Heart
c) Pancreas
d) Adipose tissue
e) Skeletal muscle -- Correct Answer ✔✔ a. Liver
2) Triglycerides made in the body by the liver are packaged and transported into the
blood in which of the following lipoproteins?
a) LDL
b) HDL
c) VLDL
d) Micelles
e) chylomicrons -- Correct Answer ✔✔ c. VLDL
3) For a normal weight adult male, is more body energy stored as liver glycogen or as
body fat?
a) Body fat
b) Liver glycogen -- Correct Answer ✔✔ a. Body fat
4) Which of the following is not a non-fermentable (insoluble) fiber?
a) Gum
b) Lignin
c) Cellulose
d) hemicellulose -- Correct Answer ✔✔ a. Gum
5) Diabetes increases the risk of developing which of the following conditions?
, a) Kidney disease
b) Cardiovascular disease
c) Blindness in adulthood
d) All the above
e) B and C only -- Correct Answer ✔✔ d. All the above
6) Which type of diabetes is associated with obesity, and results from the body
becoming resistant to the effects of insulin?
a) Type 1 diabetes
b) Type 2 diabetes
c) Gestational diabetes -- Correct Answer ✔✔ b. Type 2 diabetes
7) What is the major monosaccharide found in the body?
a) Lactose
b) Maltose
c) Glucose
d) Fructose
e) galactose -- Correct Answer ✔✔ c. Glucose
8) The process by which a polyunsaturated fatty acid is made more saturated is called...
a) salination
b) trituration
c) micturition
d) mastication
e) hydrogenation -- Correct Answer ✔✔ e. hydrogenation
9) Which method of determining total body fat determines the body's electrical
resistance, which is related to how much water is in the body? The amount of total
body water is in turn related to the amount of body fat.
a) DEXA
b) Skin fold thickness
c) Underwater weighed
d) Bioelectrical impedance
e) Air displacement plethysmograph -- Correct Answer ✔✔ d.
Bioelectrical impedance
,10) Which of the following statements is more correct of the eating disorder anorexia?
a) The problem is rooted in the physiological mechanisms of eating, which
then leads to psychological problems
b) The problem is rooted in the psychological problems of the individual,
which is then expressed through a problem with eating -- Correct
Answer ✔✔ b. The problem is rooted in the psychological problems of
the individual, which is then expressed through a problem with eating.
11) What type of tissue or organ increases the ability of newborn infants to produce
heat?
a) Liver
b) Pancreas
c) Skeletal muscle
d) White adipose tissue
e) Brown adipose tissue -- Correct Answer ✔✔ e. Brown adipose tissue
12) Which of the following factors is not associated with an increase in the basal
metabolic rate?
a) Pregnancy
b) Consumption of caffeine
c) Increase in lean body mass
d) Decrease in thyroid hormone
e) Increase in body temperature -- Correct Answer ✔✔ d. Decrease in
thyroid hormone
13) Which of the following enzymes can digest dietary proteins into polypeptides,
tripeptides, dipeptides, and free amino acids.
a) Lipase
b) Pepsin
c) Amylase
d) Myokinase
e) Alpha limit dexinase -- Correct Answer ✔✔ b. Pepsin
14) Suppose the following sequence of letters represents the amino acids in a protein to
be made (MISSISSIPPI). Each letter represents an essential amino acid. If the body has
1-M, 6-I's, 3-S's, 2-P's, which letter(s) represent(s) the limiting amino acid?
, a) M
b) I
c) S
d) P
e) A and B only -- Correct Answer ✔✔ c. S
15) Amino acids are absorbed in the ____ of the _____ intestine.
a) Lymphatics, small
b) Capillaries, small
c) Lymphatics, large
d) Capillaries, large -- Correct Answer ✔✔ b. Capillaries, small
16) When two or more low-quality proteins are eaten together to compensate for the
deficiencies of each, they are said to be ____ proteins.
a) Parallel
b) Limiting
c) Corresponding
d) Complementary
e) interdependent -- Correct Answer ✔✔ d. Complementary
17) The thermic effect of food is approximate what percent of the total energy
expenditure?
a) 1-2%
b) 5-10%
c) 20-25%
d) 30-35%
e) 50-55% -- Correct Answer ✔✔ b. 5-10%
18) The hormone leptin is produced primarily from which of the following
tissues/organs?
a) Fat
b) Liver
c) Pancreas
d) Small intestine
e) Skeletal muscle -- Correct Answer ✔✔ a. Fat
ANSWERS 2025/2026
1) Which organ will first receive sugars after they are absorbed into the blood?
a) Liver
b) Heart
c) Pancreas
d) Adipose tissue
e) Skeletal muscle -- Correct Answer ✔✔ a. Liver
2) Triglycerides made in the body by the liver are packaged and transported into the
blood in which of the following lipoproteins?
a) LDL
b) HDL
c) VLDL
d) Micelles
e) chylomicrons -- Correct Answer ✔✔ c. VLDL
3) For a normal weight adult male, is more body energy stored as liver glycogen or as
body fat?
a) Body fat
b) Liver glycogen -- Correct Answer ✔✔ a. Body fat
4) Which of the following is not a non-fermentable (insoluble) fiber?
a) Gum
b) Lignin
c) Cellulose
d) hemicellulose -- Correct Answer ✔✔ a. Gum
5) Diabetes increases the risk of developing which of the following conditions?
, a) Kidney disease
b) Cardiovascular disease
c) Blindness in adulthood
d) All the above
e) B and C only -- Correct Answer ✔✔ d. All the above
6) Which type of diabetes is associated with obesity, and results from the body
becoming resistant to the effects of insulin?
a) Type 1 diabetes
b) Type 2 diabetes
c) Gestational diabetes -- Correct Answer ✔✔ b. Type 2 diabetes
7) What is the major monosaccharide found in the body?
a) Lactose
b) Maltose
c) Glucose
d) Fructose
e) galactose -- Correct Answer ✔✔ c. Glucose
8) The process by which a polyunsaturated fatty acid is made more saturated is called...
a) salination
b) trituration
c) micturition
d) mastication
e) hydrogenation -- Correct Answer ✔✔ e. hydrogenation
9) Which method of determining total body fat determines the body's electrical
resistance, which is related to how much water is in the body? The amount of total
body water is in turn related to the amount of body fat.
a) DEXA
b) Skin fold thickness
c) Underwater weighed
d) Bioelectrical impedance
e) Air displacement plethysmograph -- Correct Answer ✔✔ d.
Bioelectrical impedance
,10) Which of the following statements is more correct of the eating disorder anorexia?
a) The problem is rooted in the physiological mechanisms of eating, which
then leads to psychological problems
b) The problem is rooted in the psychological problems of the individual,
which is then expressed through a problem with eating -- Correct
Answer ✔✔ b. The problem is rooted in the psychological problems of
the individual, which is then expressed through a problem with eating.
11) What type of tissue or organ increases the ability of newborn infants to produce
heat?
a) Liver
b) Pancreas
c) Skeletal muscle
d) White adipose tissue
e) Brown adipose tissue -- Correct Answer ✔✔ e. Brown adipose tissue
12) Which of the following factors is not associated with an increase in the basal
metabolic rate?
a) Pregnancy
b) Consumption of caffeine
c) Increase in lean body mass
d) Decrease in thyroid hormone
e) Increase in body temperature -- Correct Answer ✔✔ d. Decrease in
thyroid hormone
13) Which of the following enzymes can digest dietary proteins into polypeptides,
tripeptides, dipeptides, and free amino acids.
a) Lipase
b) Pepsin
c) Amylase
d) Myokinase
e) Alpha limit dexinase -- Correct Answer ✔✔ b. Pepsin
14) Suppose the following sequence of letters represents the amino acids in a protein to
be made (MISSISSIPPI). Each letter represents an essential amino acid. If the body has
1-M, 6-I's, 3-S's, 2-P's, which letter(s) represent(s) the limiting amino acid?
, a) M
b) I
c) S
d) P
e) A and B only -- Correct Answer ✔✔ c. S
15) Amino acids are absorbed in the ____ of the _____ intestine.
a) Lymphatics, small
b) Capillaries, small
c) Lymphatics, large
d) Capillaries, large -- Correct Answer ✔✔ b. Capillaries, small
16) When two or more low-quality proteins are eaten together to compensate for the
deficiencies of each, they are said to be ____ proteins.
a) Parallel
b) Limiting
c) Corresponding
d) Complementary
e) interdependent -- Correct Answer ✔✔ d. Complementary
17) The thermic effect of food is approximate what percent of the total energy
expenditure?
a) 1-2%
b) 5-10%
c) 20-25%
d) 30-35%
e) 50-55% -- Correct Answer ✔✔ b. 5-10%
18) The hormone leptin is produced primarily from which of the following
tissues/organs?
a) Fat
b) Liver
c) Pancreas
d) Small intestine
e) Skeletal muscle -- Correct Answer ✔✔ a. Fat
