Which statement about minerals is true?

Which statement about minerals is true?

• A. Minerals can be destroyed, altered, or reduced to smaller substances
• B. Minerals can't be destroyed, altered, or reduced to smaller substances
• C. Minerals are sources of calories
• D. Minerals can be created from nothing

Answer: (B)

Minerals are inorganic elements that keep their identity under normal cooking and digestion; they cannot be broken down into smaller substances or destroyed. They exist in foods in different chemical forms, but their elemental form remains the same, and they don’t provide calories. They also can’t be created from nothing in the body. So the statement that minerals can’t be destroyed, altered, or reduced to smaller substances is true.

Minerals are inorganic elements that keep their identity under normal cooking and digestion; they cannot be broken down into smaller substances or destroyed. They exist in foods in different chemical forms, but their elemental form remains the same, and they don’t provide calories. They also can’t be created from nothing in the body. So the statement that minerals can’t be destroyed, altered, or reduced to smaller substances is true.