Title: Individual Project - Big Mac
Course: DES 2710 General and Oral Nutrition > Section: Module Two

"The Big Mac Project”

The purpose of this project is to provide you with hands on assessment of your understanding of the digestion process and nutrient absorption. This project is worth 50 points. Please review the rubrics in the syllabus to make sure you have addressed all important issues.

Watch the video and listen closely to the words to the 1970’s jingle used to sell McDonalds’ new Big Mac hamburger (you may want to write the words down).

This is the link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK2qBbDn5W0

The nutrients that make up the Big Mac cover the energy nutrients that we have discussed thus far.

The purpose of this project is to provide you with hands on assessment of your understanding of the digestion process and nutrient absorption.

1. Your assignment is to trace a Big Mac through the digestive tract from the oral cavity and ending with waste excretion. Search the web to find a diagram of the digestive tract that you can label and attach to this assignment.
2. The written portion of the assignment will detail this process considering digestion, absorption, transit, and storage of the essential nutrients through the alimentary canal.

Students are required to provide concise and complete answers. Students will type their responses in a document (.txt file if you are not using word). Post by the due date listed in the Course Calendar. Please post the assignment by selecting the Assignment title. This assignment is worth 50 points.

The rubric that will be used to grade “The Big Mac Project” can be found in the syllabus. Project must thoroughly cover digestion absorption, transit and storage of the energy nutrients throughout the alimentary canal. It must also include a accurately labeled diagram of digestive tract with submission.