Major Minerals

• Oxalic Acid


  Found in leafy green plants
• Phytic Acid


  Found in wheat grain, legume fiber, and unleavened breads.
• Osteoblasts


  Bone-building cells
• Osteocytes


  which are biochemically active
• Bioavailability


  A food could contain a lot of good ingredients but you might not absorb all of them because they are competing
• _____ in the stomach can convert minerals to be more bioavailable

  HCl