Israel J.Lambo Virtual Nutritional Labels Activity PDF

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This is not for college students mainly freshmen in Hight, to be honest, I uploaded it because I didn't want to pay for premiums. Sorry if you thought this could help. But if it does I'm glad....

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Name: ____________________________________Pd____Date________ Exploring Nutritional Labels  Background Information: Watch the video giving you a general overview of how a food label is organized and answer the following questions.  https://youtu.be/ylY0w04AAVk

 1. What do nutrition labels tell us? They give us information about whats in the food  2. What is meant by the % Daily Value (%DV) The Daily Value or %DV is what nutritionists have come with that people should be consuming everyday of each key nutrient.  3. What does the ingredients list tell us? What foods/ingredients were used to make into the packing food.  4. What is a serving size? How is it determined? Are they the same for every food? Serving size is how many nutrients shown on the nutrition Facts are in the exact serving size eating more than the serving size will mean you are eating more than the nutrients show. It is mainly for adults to know what they’re eating or feeding they’re kids. However, it’s not always the same for anyone; some people need more than the serving size like athletes, bodybuilders, and diabetics.   5. What do calories provide us? Calories give your body energy.  6. What happens if you eat too many calories? Eating too many calories can make you gain weight  7. What happens if you eat too few calories? If you eat less calories you will make you lose weight.  8. How does your body use fats? Your body uses fat to grow and develop. 

9. What are the two types of carbohydrates on the food label? Saturated fats and unsaturated fats.  10. Which carbohydrate do we want a lot of? Dietary fibers  11. How does your body use proteins? protein is a nutrient - your body uses to build strong muscles and to keep your organs and blood healthy.   Directions: Go into your Kitchen and find 2 food items that have a food label on them and bring them back to your computer. If you can’t find 2 then use Google images to find food labels of 2 of your favorite foods.  Fill out the charts below for each Food label:   

Food Label 1

Food Label 2

Food Name

Extra Sharp Cheddar

NIDO

Serving size

¼ cup

4 tbsp/ 36g

Servings per container

16

42

Calories

110

160

Total Fat

9g

6g

Dietary Fiber

0g

1g

Sugars

0g

13g

Protein

6g

5g

Vitamins (List all)

D (.2 mcg)

D (1.8mg)

Ingredients (list 1st five) Note: do not list any ingredients in parenthesis

Cheddar Cheese, potato starch and powdered cellulose added to prevent caking, natamycin. (Note that these are the

Nonfat Dry Milk, Dried Corn Syrup, Milk Fat Solids, Lactose, Vegetable Oil Blend, Honey.

ingredients that aren’t in parenthesis:)  Analysis questions: 1. The % Daily Value (%DV) is based on a single serving. Choose a food label that has more than 1 serving per container and calculate the number of calories you would consume if you ate the entire container.   # of servings per container  42

# of calories per serving

x 160

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Total calories consumed =

6720

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2. Indicate which of your two foods has the MOST of each of the following by placing an “X” in the table  

Food 1

Food 2

Calories



X

Total Fat

X



Dietary Fiber



X

Sugars



X

Protein

X

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 3. Do either of your foods have a high percentage of vitamins (above 20%)? Which one(s)? None of them do.  4. Would you consider either of your foods to be “healthy”? Why or why not? For an average person I think none of them is healthy because although one had seems better than another but that can only happen in some columns so none of them are really good enough to say “healthy “ Plus they each have lots of fats and sugars that don’t outway there protein.   

           5. Below are the ingredient list and nutrition labels for veggie straws. The ingredients are always listed from the ingredient that is used most in the food to that which is used least.               

  a. What is the #1 ingredient in veggie straws? Veggie straws or canola oil  b. Do you consider Veggie straws a vegetable? Explain why or why not.

I do not because avegatable is food that can be organically sourced and grown from the grown. However, veggie straw is factory made and not naturally at least in the organic sense.  c. Are they a good source of vitamins and minerals? (explain your answer and cite evidence) No, because in Nutrition it states that there's two vitamins. However, vitamin A has 0% and vitamin C has 2% which together only gives you 3% which is not enough according to the question before for a food to have a high percentage of vitamins it has to be over 20% which is 10 times what the vitamins in the food above had combines with A & C.      6. Food companies like to advertise foods by putting terms like “low-fat” or “fat-free” on the label, but the use of these terms has little to no regulation. Knowing this, explain why it is important for the consumer to look at the food label. Because low fat and fat free is not always the truth, because it has no regulations the food could have 5g but that’s close to nothing and because of lack of regulation they could just lie to make more profit. Also, most nutrition facts are on the front and the nutrition is on the back instead of spending time looking through people will just see it and trust, not knowing they’re really being lied to and then when thinking they’re eating healthy it’s not as healthy as they think. However, if someone looks at the actual food label and facts they will be able to realize that they were about to get scammed financially and physically by eating or drink something and expecting the results of a real drink or food that is fat free. So in conclusion it’s important to read the label.   7. The information on food labels is based on the recommended 2000 calorie diet for the average person. Why might someone’s daily recommended calories be different from this number? (HINT: consider factors like age, gender, activity level, etc.) Well an average person is really not that a big percentage of people. Considering that there are lots of obese, diatbietc and alethes rthat need to consume more or less of the “average person” . for example an body builder might eat on aver 13,000-15,000 calories day just to maintain the body and to make sure he’s “healthy” then for an obese person they maybe should be eating less than the average because he is above the average weight for their age to make sure they get back in the healthy zone. So really averge in just another group like underweight, obese, body-builder, and etc...

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