Question

While shopping, you settle on two types of cookies. The nutritional label for the chocolate mint cookies lists 5 grams of saturated 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.
Calculate the total amount of calories for each cookie and then tell which cookie is less healthy and why. (look up on the internet how many calories per gram are found in fat, carbohydrates and protein to get the answer)

Answer 1

Answer:

The options

A) The chocolate mint cookies because they contain more saturated fat.

B) The chocolate mint cookies because they contain more total grams of protein and carbohydrates.

C) The peanut butter cookies because they contain more trans fat.

D) The peanut butter cookies because they contain more grams of carbohydrates.

The CORRECT ANSWER IS C)

C)The peanut butter cookies because they contain more trans fat.

Explanation:

The two cookies possesses equal type of ingredients, but at varying amount or percentage.

Out of the class of lipids, the trans fat are referred to as being less healthy for our body due to the fact that they decrease the "good" colesterol (HDL) and decrease the "bad" colesterol (LDL).

On another careful examination, in an individual with a diet that as average level of 2000 calories, it is well advised that a maximum amount of  2 grams of trans fat is preferable. In the situation of peanut butter, it possess 5 g.

Meanwhile, the chocolate mini cookies, possess a higher amount of proteins of which it's the essential nutrient needed by the body to develop muscles and tissues to the body.