While shopping, you settle on two types of cookies. The nutritional label for the chocolate mint cookies lists 5 grams of satura
ted fat, 0 grams of trans fat, 22 grams of carbohydrates, and 11 grams of protein per serving. The nutritional label for the peanut butter cookies lists 0 grams of saturated fat, 5 grams of trans fat, 26 grams of carbohydrates, and 4 grams of protein per serving. 1) Which cookies are less healthy?
Both cookies have the same ingredients, but the quantity is different.
From all the lipids, the trans fat are the less healthy in our body because they reduce the "good" colesterol (HDL) and increases the "bad" colesterol (LDL). Also, in a person with a diet of an average quantity of 2000 calories, it is recommended a maximum number of 2 grams of trans fat. In the case of peanut butter, it has 5 g.
Also the chocolate mini cookies, it has more proteins that are the ones which produce muscles and tissues to the body.
