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Friday, May 10, 2013

Nutritional information data


The nutritional information that can be found at the back of food packaging contains information about what is in your food. It should tell you how much salt, sugar, fat, protein etc is in your food.

Nutrition = the process of providing and obtaining the food necessary for health and growth.

Task: Make a comparison between two different food packages. See what you can find out. Write a brief summary about your  findings.


Food:
popcorn


Per serving?
Food:
shapes

Per 100g?
Per serving?
Energy
190.8 kJ
Energy
711 kJ
Protein
1.4g
Protein
3.8g
Total Fat
1.0g
Total Fat
3.3g
sodium
36.5mg
sodium
248 mg
sugar
o.5g
sugar
o.3g

1) What can you say about the first package you looked at?
It is low in fat and sugar.
2) What can you say about the second package you looked at?
it has a lot of salt.

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