Hands are wonderful useful tools that can be used to estimate serving sizes. There are certain tools that can be used in place of hands but you can always use your hand for estimating serving sizes instead of using other tools.
<h2>Further Explanation</h2>
Our hands are always with us, we carry them around and most importantly, our hands are scaled to our sizes. Hands are consistent unit of measurement and we can use them anywhere, any time.
Although the use of hands in estimating serving size may not be accurate sometimes, we can still get a measurement that will be close to using normal kitchen scale.
Examples of serving sizes include:
- Our fist is one cup
- The meaty part of individual thumb is 1 ounce
- Our thumb, excluding the meaty part is one table spoon
- The tip of the first finger also called index finger is 1 teaspoon.
- The middle part of the index finger is 1 inch
- Our cupped hand is 1 -2 ounce foods such as nuts
- The palm of our hand is 3 ounces of fish.
These analyses represent a rough estimate but its accuracy will be determined by the size of individual hand. You can as well use a kitchen scale to determine serving sizes.
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- fist
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