What’s on the Macronutrients poster
A 5-row table: Macro · kcal/g · Chiefly for.
Energy per gram, and what the body does with each.
- Protein — 4 — Building and repairing tissue
- Carbohydrate — 4 — Fast and stored energy
- Fat — 9 — Energy store, hormones, absorption
- Alcohol — 7 — Nothing structural
- Fibre — ~2 — Digestion; mostly not absorbed
Fat carries more than twice the energy per gram of protein or carbohydrate. That density is why it is the storage form.
Questions about the Macronutrients poster
- What’s on the Macronutrients poster?
- A 5-row table: Macro · kcal/g · Chiefly for. Energy per gram, and what the body does with each. Protein — 4 — Building and repairing tissue; Carbohydrate — 4 — Fast and stored energy; Fat — 9 — Energy store, hormones, absorption; Alcohol — 7 — Nothing structural; Fibre — ~2 — Digestion; mostly not absorbed. Fat carries more than twice the energy per gram of protein or carbohydrate. That density is why it is the storage form.
- Who is the Macronutrients poster for?
- Macronutrients belongs to the Body & health section rather than to a school year, because health is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning nutrition can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Macronutrients poster?
- Energy comes from three places. Everything else on a label is detail around them. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Macronutrients belongs on the wall where that health work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Macronutrients?
- Added Sugar, Alcohol Units and Caffeine sit alongside Macronutrients in the Body & health section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Added SugarAlcohol UnitsCaffeine
- Is the Macronutrients poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Macronutrients downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Body & health section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Macronutrients poster print at?
- Macronutrients is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Macronutrients loses nothing.Printing guide
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