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How to read a food label

Learn how to read and interpret food labels to make informed and healthy choices, avoiding deceptive practices by companies. Understand serving sizes, caloric content, fat composition, and sugar levels to determine product healthiness.

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How to read a food label

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  1. How to read a food label

  2. How companies might deceive you on a food label: Unrealistic serving size - chips Servings per container - muffin, cheetos Packaging - pop tart listing an amount and then having a “ * ” - Mac n’ Cheese see examples on next slides…

  3. Label Deception-Serving Size: Servings Size: 6 chips Servings per Container: 20 Calories: 130 (x20) Total Fat: 6 grams (x20)

  4. "Strawberry" PopTart

  5. In a minute, each person will choose a product and fill in a worksheet. Here is what you’ll be looking at: Hand out worksheet, but not food product yet. Can you figure it yourself?:

  6. IS THIS PRODUCT HEALTHY?13 Ever wondered, “Is this product ‘healthy’?... Today you will see how to determine if a product is “healthy” for you. To be in the vending machines at many schools it has to be less than: < 35% (calories from) fat + < 35% (weight from) sugar (or no more than 15 grams)

  7. Egg Nog #1 Write the name of your product Egg Nog

  8. Egg Nog #2 Write the Serving Size of your product

  9. Egg Nog #2 Write the Serving Size of your product: 1 cup

  10. #3 Serving per container Egg Nog

  11. #3 Serving per container 1 Egg Nog

  12. #3 Calories300 Nutrition Facts Serving Size: 7 pieces Servings Per Container: 2 Calories 150 Total Fat 1g Total Carbohydrate 38g Sugars 31g #3 Total Fat 2

  13. Egg Nog #3 Is it Realistic? #3 Is it Deceptive?

  14. Egg Nog #4 Total Fat? Saturated fat? Trans fat?

  15. Egg Nog #4 Total Fat? 12 Saturated fat? 3 Trans fat? 3

  16. #4 Total Fat? Saturated fat? Trans fat? If it's not listed on label, you'll need to look at ingredients

  17. Egg Nog #5: sugars are measured by weight. How many grams?

  18. Egg Nog To be in our vending machine at school it has to be less than: < 35% (calories from) fat Fat Calories divided by total calories=_________ + < 35% (weight from) sugar (or no more than 15 grams) Sugar Grams divided by total grams = ___________

  19. #6 Calories from Fat divided by Total Calories = ________ Yes_____ or No____ Egg Nog

  20. #6 Calories from Fat 110 divided by Total Calories 250 = 44% __ Yes_____ or No__X__ Egg Nog

  21. #7 Sugar Grams divided by Total Grams = ________ Yes_____ or No____ Egg Nog

  22. #7 Sugar Grams 5 divided by Total Grams 228 = ____2%__ Yes__X___ or No____ Egg Nog

  23. IS YOUR PRODUCT HEALTHY ENOUGH TO BE IN THE SCHOOL VENDING MACHINE: YES _____ NO_____

  24. IS YOUR PRODUCT HEALTHY ENOUGH TO BE IN THE SCHOOL VENDING MACHINE: YES _____ NO__X___ Has to be under 35 for both!!

  25. Just a bit more practice… • Is this product healthy • for TOTAL FAT?:

  26. Just a bit more practice… • Is this product healthy • for TOTAL FAT • 80 divided by 170 = 47% NO!

  27. Just a bit more practice… • Is this product healthy • for SUGAR GRAMS?:

  28. Just a bit more practice… • Is this product healthy • for SUGAR GRAMS • 11 divided by 35 = 31% YES! But in vending machine for both = NO!

  29. Just a bit more practice… • Is this product healthy • for TOTAL FAT?:

  30. Just a bit more practice… • Is this product healthy • for TOTAL FAT?: • 5 divided by 50 = 10% YES!

  31. Just a bit more practice… • Is this product healthy • for SUGAR GRAMS?:

  32. Just a bit more practice… • Is this product healthy • for SUGAR GRAMS?: • 7 divided by 14 = 50% NO! In vending machine for both = NO!

  33. Here is a "generic" way to look at the label information: -look at calories if you want to lose weight (and servings!) -look at fat (total and saturated)if you want to lose body fat/get 6-pack abs! (or if you have heart/ medical problems -look at protein if you want to build muscle Good fat example: Total fat is 16 Sat. fat is 1 BUT, if you want to lose weight- count calories: 6 servings per container: calories 170 x 6 = ____________ !!!!

  34. Watch a video on "Grocery Store Savvy"12 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R7cCIg8iDQ

  35. Grocery Store Scavenger Hunt Homework

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