Additionally, there are many vitamins and nutrients that do not fall in these three categories but often are often precursors or vital components. The iron that is at the core of our oxygen carrying hemoglobin proteins, the essential amino acids that our bodies don't produce that make up the multitude of proteins in our bodies, and the many vitamins that we require, all are present in our food. Literally, we are what we eat. This is a ball and stick representation of a saturated fat. In this model, C is gray, H is white, O is red.
Cylinders represent single and double bonds.
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