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Healthy Eating 101

Healthy Eating 101. How to read Nutrition Facts. Can you tell me what these are?.

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Healthy Eating 101

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  1. Healthy Eating 101 How to read Nutrition Facts

  2. Can you tell me what these are? INGREDIENTS:Enriched corn meal (corn meal, ferrous sulfate, niacin, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, and folic acid), vegetable oil (contains one or more of the following: corn, soybean, or sunflower oil), salt, maltodextrin, sugar, monosodium glutamate, autolyzed yeast extract, citric acid, artificial color (including red 40 lake, yellow 6 lake, yellow 6, yellow 5), corn syrup solids, partially hydrogenated soybean and cottonseed oil, hydrolyzed soy protein, cheddar cheese (cultured milk, salt, enzymes), whey, onion powder, whey protein concentrate, corn syrup solids, natural flavor, buttermilk solids, garlic powder, disodium phosphate, sodium diacetate, sodium caseinate, lactic acid, disodium inosinate, disodium guanylate, nonfat milk solids, sodium citrate, and carrageenan. Contains: Milk and Soy ingredients. INGREDIENTS: Dipropylene Glycol, Water Aqua, Propylene Glycol, Sodium Stearate, Poloxamine 130, Fragrance Parfum, Aminomethyl Propanol, Disodiium EDTA, BHT, Green 6 CI 61565, Ext Violet 2 CI 60730

  3. Can you tell me what these are? Cheetos Deodorant

  4. Decoding a Food Label: • Serving Size • Calories, calories from fat • Fats, cholesterol, sodium • Fiber and Vitamins • Daily Values

  5. Decoding an ingredient list: Ingredients: whole grain rolled oats, sugar, canola oil, crisp rice (rice, flour, sugar, malt, salt), soy protein, honey, brown sugar syrup, high fructose corn syrup, salt, soy lecithin, baking soda, natural flavor, almond flour, peanut flour,. Contains soy, almond and peanut ingredients.

  6. Nutrient Density • High in Calories and low in Nutrients vs. High in Nutrients and low in Calories • Example: • Potato Chips vs. Pretzels • Candy Bars vs. Trail Mix • Soft Drinks vs. Vegetable Drink • Ice Cream vs. Low Fat Yogurt VS. VS. VS. VS.

  7. Calories from what sources?! • 1 gram Carbohydrates = 4 calories • 1 gram Protein = 4 calories • 1 gram Fat = 9 calories • Carbohydrate grams x 4 = calories from carbohydrates • Protein grams x 4 = calories from protein • Fat grams x 9 = calories from fat

  8. Percentages • The calories from the nutrient (fat, carbohydrate, protein) divided by the total calories. • Nutrient Density: Move calorie value one decimal to the left & divide by 2 = percent of 2000 calories. • If nutrients are more or equal to that number it is nutrient dense. • If lower…NOT NUTRIENT dense.

  9. What is a portion?

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