look at the ingredients list for sugar: sugar, brown sugar, cane sugar, beet sugar, corn syrup, corn syrup
solids, brown rice syrup, dextrose, fructose, fruit juice concentrate, high fructose corn syrup, honey, invert
sugar, maltodextrin, molasses, raw sugar, turbinado sugar and sucrose are all added sugars. Sometimes
food manufacturers use a number of sweeteners in a product – each in small amounts – so the ingredients
are “sprinkled” throughout the ingredients list, but taken together they can sometimes add up significantly.Fiber and sugars are part of the total carbohydrate count. A food with 5 grams or more of fiber per serving
is a good source of fiber.% daily value:
Daily Values are standard values developed by the Food and Drug Administration for use on food labels.
They are standards used to compare the amount of a nutrient in a food to the amount that is
recommended per day, but is based on a 2,000-calorie diet that may not apply to everyone. even if you
know that you don’t require that many calories, you can still look at these values to see if a particular food
is high or low in a nutrient that you are interested in. In the example above, one serving of the soup
provides 30 percent of the Daily Value for sodium, which is quite a bit. But it also has 25 percent of the
Daily Value for fat – that means that one-fourth of the recommended fat for the day is packed into 1 cup
of soup – that’s a lot of fat per serving!here are some things to visualize when you are looking at a food label:
every 5 grams of fat is a teaspoon of fat (or a pat of butter). In the example above, each cup serving
of soup has 15 grams of fat – that’s three teaspoons (or one tablespoon), or three pats of butter per
serving! If you consume the whole can (two servings), then you are consuming six pats of butter!
every 4 grams of sugar is a teaspoon. The soup above has very little sugar – only 2 grams per serving,
or about a half a teaspoon. But a 16 oz. bottle of sweetened tea might have 30 grams per serving
(and remember, the bottle is two servings of 8 ounces each). If you drink the whole bottle, you’ll be
drinking 60 grams of sugar – that’s 15 teaspoons, or five tablespoons, or just under^1 / 3 cup!SECTION FIVE: Week 5: nutrition labels, Fats, Portion Control