What are proteins, carbohydrates, and fats made of?
LEGO You Can Eat
What are proteins, carbohydrates, and fats made of?
When you bite into a sandwich, you're really eating three big crews of tiny building blocks: proteins, carbohydrates, and fats. They look totally different on your plate — chewy, fluffy, oily. But zoom way down, and they're all built from the same handful of atoms, snapped together in different shapes. Let's go meet the bricks.
First, the bricks themselves. Almost everything in food is made of just a few kinds of atom: carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and — for proteins — a bit of nitrogen. Think of atoms as colored LEGO pieces. The same four colors can build a fluffy noodle, a juicy steak, or a pat of butter. The magic isn't in the pieces. It's in how they're clicked together.
