NUTRITION FACTS
Why are nutrition facts important to read?
They can help you follow a healthy diet and choose nutritious foods.
If a product is low in calories, how many calories does it have?
Less than 40 calories.
What are the nutrients on the label measured in?
Grams or milligrams
Where are the footnotes located?
Underneath the nutrients or sometimes beside.
How many calories should be taken in on an average day?
A 2000 calories a day when regularly active.
Where is the food label usually located on a product?
Either on the side or back of the packaged product.
If a bag of chips has 70 calories per serving and you eat two servings, how many calories have you consumed?
140 calories.
Which nutrients should be limited?
Saturated fat, trans fat, cholesterol, and sodium.
Where are the ingredients located?
Next to the nutrition facts
You want to consume more fiber. One product has 6%DV of fiber and another has 14%DV. Which should you take?(DV Daily Value).
The one with 14%DV of fiber.
In what order should you look at the label?(The four things are nutrition, calories per serving, serving size, and percentage of daily value).
First read the ingredients, next serving size and # of servings, then calories per serving and lastly percentage of daily value.
What is the Nutrition Facts Label based on?
The amount of calories your body should in take.
Which nutrients should you get plenty of?
Vitamins, Calcium, Iron, Potassium, etc.
How are the ingredients ordered?
By how much is the ingredient used in it.
What does the Daily Value help determine?
It helps determine how much of a nutrient you are getting in a product.
What can the food label be used for?
It can be used to compare different food products.
What are calories from fat?
They are the calories you're consuming just from fat.
What should you use to compare nutrients?
% Daily Value
What should you do with foods that have nothing but chemical names a hundred letters long in the ingredients list?
You shouldn't eat them. They were probably made in a label and label to look health but are not.
Why is the %DV not meant to track our total nutrient intake for the day?
Because some of the foods you eat (like vegetables, fruit, and fresh meat) don't have a Nutrition Facts table.
Does "fat-free" mean "sugar-free"?
No; the product still contains sugar.
What are the 3 things calories in food come from?
The calories in a food can come from fat, protein, or carbohydrate.
Which nutrients have no %Daily Value?
Sugars and Trans Fat
Do the footnotes ever change when comparing different products?
They never change.
If the food label says the product has 15%DV of Vitamin C, how much more Vitamin C would you need for the day?(Hint: DV=100%)
85%DV