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CHEBI ONTOLOGY - ANNOTATIONS

The Chemical Entities of Biological Interest (ChEBI) ontology is downloaded weekly from EMBL-EBI at http://www.ebi.ac.uk/chebi/. The data is made available under the Creative Commons License (CC BY 3.0, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). For more information see: Degtyarenko et al. (2008) ChEBI: a database and ontology for chemical entities of biological interest. Nucleic Acids Res. 36, D344–D350.

Term:macronutrient
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Definition:Any nutrient required in large quantities by organisms throughout their life in order to orchestrate a range of physiological functions. Macronutrients are usually chemical elements (carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and sulfur) that humans consume in the largest quantities. Calcium, sodium, magnesium and potassium are sometimes included as macronutrients because they are required in relatively large quantities compared with other vitamins and minerals.
Synonyms:related_synonym: macronutrients



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      CHEBI ontology 19921
        role 19893
          biological role 19891
            physiological role 19890
              food component 19890
                nutrient 19885
                  macronutrient 19863
                    calcium atom + 763
                    carbon atom + 19801
                    hydrogen atom + 19678
                    magnesium atom + 120
                    nitrogen atom + 19027
                    oxygen atom + 19586
                    phosphorus atom + 14734
                    potassium atom + 5023
                    sodium atom + 13410
                    sulfur atom + 17780
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