Question

Why do you think nutritional information is listed per serving and not per package? What are the pros and cons to this method? Based on your analysis of the food labels from the four foods, would you change your opinion of which foods you considered to be healthy (step 4)? Explain your answer. Describe at least one reason for limiting each of the following in a well-balanced diet: saturated fat, cholesterol, and sodium. Choose one food label and calculate the grams of fat consumed if you ate the entire package. What percentage of your daily value of fat would be used at this meal? Show your work. Given what you have learned about the function of key vitamins and minerals, explain why it is most often recommended for adults to consume a multivitamin once a day along with their regular meals. Explain why DRIs are now the preferred value for nutritional intake but are not shown on food labels. Describe at least two changes Anna would have to make to her diet to increase her overall health and fitness.

Answer 1

Answer:

Nutrional fact is mention per serving because in a package could be more than one serving, so if you calculate the total calories of the package, you practically will eat anything.

Explanation:

The pros is to be learn how many calories each product give us and learn how to combine food or the quantities of each food. The cons is that you need to do some math to know the quantities.

Learn how to calculate the calories of each food, should be realistic of how many calories we need to consume every day.

In a diet, is necessary different ingredients like for example saturated food, but in small quantities, otherwise your body will fill either with carbs, or fats or vitamins.

Remember that every day you need to consume 60 % of carbs, 30% of proteins and just 10 % of fats.

Hope this info is useful.

Answer 2

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