Math 126
How Much Fat am I Actually Eating?
Sherrie Bullitt
MAT126: Survey of Mathematical Methods
Instructor: Michael Storper
May 16, 2013
How Much Fat am I Actually Eating? Three of my favorite things to eat are Louisiana Purchase’s Red Beans and Rice, Nature Valley Granola Thins; Dark Chocolate and peanut Butter, and Louisiana Hot Sauce. I know that every prepackaged food has the nutritional information listed on the back to give us all an idea of our calorie, protein, fat grams, and so forth. What we are not actually seeing with our prepackaged foods is the truth about what we are putting into our bodies, the truth about the actual calories, protein, and fat. Here in this paper I intend to try and figure out the aspect of the truth behind some of the foods I love to eat. Louisiana Purchase’s Red Beans and Rice: Calories: 190, Protein: 7grams, and fat: 2 grams. In order to find out how much protein my math and equation would be based on this: There are 4 grams of calories per each gram of protein so I am going to multiply like this 4*7= 28, which means for every gram of protein I am consuming 28 calories. This is amazing because I never knew this. Nature Valley Granola Thins: Calories: 80, Fat: 4 grams, and protein 1 gram. In order to find out the calories per protein I am going again to multiply; 4* 1=4. The reason the answer is 4 is because there is only one gram of protein and only one serving. Louisiana Hot Sauce; Calories: 0, Fat: 0, Protein: 0. obviously our answer here is 0 calories per serving of protein since all nutritional values are 0. It seems that the most protein that I consume comes from the Red Beans and Rice, this food is supplying me 7 grams of protein per serving and I only usually eat one serving so I am only consuming 28 calories every time I eat this, Nature Valley thins are only giving me four calories per pouch but very few protein benefits since there is only four
Sherrie Bullitt
MAT126: Survey of Mathematical Methods
Instructor: Michael Storper
May 16, 2013
How Much Fat am I Actually Eating? Three of my favorite things to eat are Louisiana Purchase’s Red Beans and Rice, Nature Valley Granola Thins; Dark Chocolate and peanut Butter, and Louisiana Hot Sauce. I know that every prepackaged food has the nutritional information listed on the back to give us all an idea of our calorie, protein, fat grams, and so forth. What we are not actually seeing with our prepackaged foods is the truth about what we are putting into our bodies, the truth about the actual calories, protein, and fat. Here in this paper I intend to try and figure out the aspect of the truth behind some of the foods I love to eat. Louisiana Purchase’s Red Beans and Rice: Calories: 190, Protein: 7grams, and fat: 2 grams. In order to find out how much protein my math and equation would be based on this: There are 4 grams of calories per each gram of protein so I am going to multiply like this 4*7= 28, which means for every gram of protein I am consuming 28 calories. This is amazing because I never knew this. Nature Valley Granola Thins: Calories: 80, Fat: 4 grams, and protein 1 gram. In order to find out the calories per protein I am going again to multiply; 4* 1=4. The reason the answer is 4 is because there is only one gram of protein and only one serving. Louisiana Hot Sauce; Calories: 0, Fat: 0, Protein: 0. obviously our answer here is 0 calories per serving of protein since all nutritional values are 0. It seems that the most protein that I consume comes from the Red Beans and Rice, this food is supplying me 7 grams of protein per serving and I only usually eat one serving so I am only consuming 28 calories every time I eat this, Nature Valley thins are only giving me four calories per pouch but very few protein benefits since there is only four
References: Bluman, A. G. (2005). Mathematics in our world (Ashford University Custom Edition). United States: McGraw-Hill.