Essential Nutrients
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Essential nutrients — certain amino acids, fatty acids, vitamins, and minerals — cannot be synthesized by the body and must come from diet.
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Humans synthesize only eleven of twenty required amino acids; the rest must be eaten.
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"Essential" describes dietary necessity, not overall biological importance — non-essential nutrients matter too, only via a different synthesis route.