How to read a food label

1. How to read a food label

3. 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…

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

8. "Strawberry" PopTart

9. 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?:

10. 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)

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

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

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

14. #3 Serving per container Egg Nog

15. #3 Serving per container 1 Egg Nog

16. #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

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

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

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

20. #4 Total Fat? Saturated fat? Trans fat? If it's not listed on label, you'll need to look at ingredients

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

22. 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 = ___________

23. #6 Calories from Fat divided by Total Calories = ________ Yes_____ or No____ Egg Nog

24. #6 Calories from Fat 110 divided by Total Calories 250 = 44% __ Yes_____ or No__X__ Egg Nog

25. #7 Sugar Grams divided by Total Grams = ________ Yes_____ or No____ Egg Nog

26. #7 Sugar Grams 5 divided by Total Grams 228 = ____2%__ Yes__X___ or No____ Egg Nog

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

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

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 • 80 divided by 170 = 47% NO!

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 • 11 divided by 35 = 31% YES! But in vending machine for both = NO!

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

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

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

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

38. 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 = ____________ !!!!

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

40. Grocery Store Scavenger Hunt Homework