Assignment: Understanding Food Labels SCI/241 AURORA MERRY Assignment: Understanding Food Labels Complete your Understanding Food Labels assignment by providing a 350- to 700-word response in APA format to the Assignments tab. Include the following: Discuss and define what the 5/20 rule is according to the “Food Label and You” video and include an example from your own pantry. Discuss the six key food label facts presented in the “How to Understand Nutritional Food Label” article that can help consumers
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Name:_________________________________ Nutrition Label Analysis When we read a nutrition label‚ the Calories tell us how much energy is stored in our food. Energy in food comes from 3 sources: fat (lipids)‚ protein‚ and carbohydrates. You will be analyzing the nutrition facts of an item to determine how much of the energy (Calories) comes from each type of carbon-based molecule. 1. How many grams of lipids (fat) are in your item? _________________________________________________________________________________________________
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University of Phoenix Material Understanding Food Labels Worksheet Part A: Analyzing a Food Label Complete the table below by filling in the requested items. Use the food label of your favorite snack to obtain the information needed. Part B: Calculating Calories Complete the equations below by using the information you obtained in Part A tables. Use figure 5.19 of the Visualizing Nutrition textbook
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Food labels were standardized in 1994 directed by the Food and Drug Administration and the Food Safety and Inspection Services “Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act establishes specific labeling requirements‚ provides a regulatory framework‚ and authorizes FDA to promulgate good manufacturing practice regulations for dietary supplements. This act defines "dietary supplements" and "dietary ingredients" and classifies them as food. The act also establishes a commission to recommend how to regulate
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Understanding Food Labels SCI 241 University of Phoenix 05/26/2013 The purpose of this paper is to let consumers know they learn of what nutrients are in the foods they eat by reading the labels provided on the product packaging. The 5/20 rule along with the six key label facts allow the average shopper to make informed‚ and nutritionally balanced decisions‚ about the foods they eat. Anyone can use the 5/20 rule to judge the nutrients needed for ones health; alternately one can
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In our economy‚ consumers are constantly purchasing goods for everyday life. We need the essential necessities in our lives in order to keep reproducing‚ this includes food‚ water‚ shelter‚ and clothing. Someone goes into a grocery store to buy vegetables for dinner and comes across a can of corn. The person sees different brands and chooses the one that gives them the obvious better deal‚ but did they check out of curiosity if the specific cans of corn were the original strain of plant or cross-bred
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Misleading Items The first item I saw was jiffy mix. It claims it contains blueberries when if fact its merely using a combination of maltodextrin and food coloring to create imitation blueberries. The second item I saw was Betty Crocker whipped vanilla frosting. This product claims its using “Natural Flavored Vanilla” when in fact it uses a vanillin that is synthetically created‚ possibly using coal-tar derivatives. In other words it’s fake‚ so how can it be natural? Very misleading. The Third
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University of Phoenix Material Understanding Food Labels Worksheet Part A: Analyzing a Food Label Complete the table below by filling in the requested items. Use the food label of your favorite snack to obtain the information needed. Part B: Calculating Calories Complete the equations below by using the information you obtained in Part A tables. Use figure 5.19 of the Visualizing Nutrition textbook as a guidance. Number of calories from proteins:
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Food Labels Compare and Contrast You are standing in the diary section of the grocery store‚ and in your hands is cottage cheese and mozzarella cheese. You are trying to pick the better food choice to meet your dietary needs. How do you know which one is the best choice? Well‚ the best way to know which of these two foods meets your dietary needs is by reading each items food label to see what nutrients they both contain. The first thing the food label tells you is the serving size of each food
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Misleading Graphs Team C Introduction to Statistics—QNT/273 February 7‚ 2011 Jeffrey McDonough Misleading Graphs “Graphs give a visual representation that enables readers to analyze and interpret data more easily than they could simply by looking at numbers. However‚ inappropriately drawn graphs can misrepresent the data and lead the reader to false conclusions” (Bluman‚ 2009‚ p.76). Some methods used by graph makers to mislead consumers are truncated axis starting points and using two
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