Transcript Nutrition Facts Label PPT

Understanding a Nutrition Facts
Label
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Sections of a Food Label
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1. Serving Size – at the top
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2. Calories- below serving size
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Yellow and Blue color
5. Footnote
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White color at the top
3. and 4. Nutrients
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Green color
White color at the bottom
6. % Daily Value
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On the far right
Purple color
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Serving Size
 How much is the serving size?
 Standard
 Compare similar foods
 Familiar units
 Cups, pieces, tablespoons
 How much actually consumed
 Servings per container
 Multiply if consuming more than one serving
 Total amount of calories and nutrients
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Calories
 Calories per Serving
 Amount of energy in each serving
 Must multiply calories per serving by number of servings consumed
 Calories from Fat
 Compare calories from fat to number of calories in each serving
 Calculate %
 Generally
 40 is low
 100 is moderate
 400 is high
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Nutrients
 Sodium
Be Sure to Get Enough of
These
 Dietary Fiber
 Vitamin A
 Vitamin C
 Calcium
 Iron
 Adequate or too much
 Usually don’t get enough
Limit These
 Total Fat
 Saturated
 Trans
 Cholesterol
 Can increase risk of
chronic diseases
 Can reduce risk of some
diseases or conditions
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Footnote
 The “*” symbol after the heading “%Daily Value” refers to the
footnote
 “%DVs are based on a 2,000 calorie diet”
 Must appear on all food labels
 Footnotes are the same on all products
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Percent Daily Value
 %DV
 On right hand side of every food label
 Based on 2,000 calorie diet
 Great way to compare food products to each other
 5% or less is low
 20% or more is high
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Summary
 6 sections to a food label
 Serving size, calories,
nutrients to limit,
nutrients to get enough of,
footnote and %DV
 Start at the top
and work down
 Use %DV to quickly
compare one food product
to another