Reading food labels

Lifestyle Health & Fitness
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Can someone please post a nutrition info label from any food product and educate us on how to correctly read it and get value out of it?

Thanks.

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http://www.paklinks.com/gsmedia/files/57648/1068041769175_nutrition_label.gif

Source

Alright lets start:

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very very very important: serving size. based on that the nutrition information is given. so what you think is half a bowl of cereal might not be their half, and you might end up getting more calories than required/you think you are getting.

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So in the above example, the numbers are for 2 crackers. Correct?

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yup. so the whole box does not contain 60 calories. it's the 2 crackers that contain that much calories and fat.

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Out of the 60 cals, 15 are from fat.
Total fat in the 2 crackers is 1.5 g which is only 2% of the daily requirement of 65g for someone on a 2000 cal diet, eh?

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yeah and sturated fat is a lot more in food like beef, eggs, salmon and certain nuts , now imagine if u had all that as a meal alongwith bread full of carbs with coat of buutter on it ............... that too after having a box or half of snacks etc

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Lois should tell us.. after all, she's the daactar sahiba.

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^ lol You should ask ur hubby to come here as well :stuck_out_tongue:

Aight here is another one:

This one is for one bowl of macaroni and cheese.
Saturated fat 3g
There is Trans-fat as well, which is not healthy.

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That should be great for my kids, but I better stay away!

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Nikky guess where this one came from?:stuck_out_tongue:

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Is that one of my chocolate friends :bummer:

Life Partner Wanted: Prefer someone with a child or two.....
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I forgot which one was it though :smack: