Nutrition Label Writing on Demand
Fish Sticks
No Sugar Added Applesauce
Strawberry Gogurt
Nutrition Writing On-Demand: What makes a healthy meal? Prompt: Is this a healthy lunch? Analyze the nutrition labels on the attached page. Your task today is to construct an argument about whether or not a meal made from these three ingredients is a healthy choice. Your answer must include: 1. Your opinion statement 2. Several statements giving evidence for your opinion (evidence should come from the nutrition labels themselves). Each piece of evidence should be connected back to the opinion by a reasoning statement. 3. A“wrap-up” statement where you summarize your answer and evidence in a sentence or two.
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Serving Size: consider how much food this is; you could even draw a plate with these items to decide if this is enough food for a decent lunch. Essential nutrients: Our bodies require carbohydrates, lipids (fats) and protein. Does this provide enough? Remember, this would only be one meal out of at least three meals in a day, so it does NOT have to provide everything you need. Calories: the amount of calories an adult woman should have each day is about 1500. An adult man should have 2000. Considering that this is one meal out of three, do the calories of this meal add up too high or too low? (Hint: 1/3 of 1500 is 500 calories, 1/3 of 2000 is about 667 calories) Balanced diet: does this provide too MUCH of some nutrients and not enough of others? Are some of the nutrients less valuable types of nutrition (like saturated fat or sugar). Does it have too much of any potentially harmful nutrients (like sodium)? Micronutrients: does this meal help you towards your 100% daily amount of your required micronutrients? Are there other considerations important to your family that would make this meal acceptable or unacceptable (examples: need for quick convenient food, preference for natural/organic food, etc.)
*Special Note: A percentage is not provided on many nutrition labels for necessary amounts of protein. Consider the percent to be two times the grams of protein.
No Sugar Added Applesauce
Strawberry Gogurt
Nutrition Writing On-Demand: What makes a healthy meal? Prompt: Is this a healthy lunch? Analyze the nutrition labels on the attached page. Your task today is to construct an argument about whether or not a meal made from these three ingredients is a healthy choice. Your answer must include: 1. Your opinion statement 2. Several statements giving evidence for your opinion (evidence should come from the nutrition labels themselves). Each piece of evidence should be connected back to the opinion by a reasoning statement. 3. A“wrap-up” statement where you summarize your answer and evidence in a sentence or two.
Potential Sources of Evidence (you may use several of these) • •
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• •
Serving Size: consider how much food this is; you could even draw a plate with these items to decide if this is enough food for a decent lunch. Essential nutrients: Our bodies require carbohydrates, lipids (fats) and protein. Does this provide enough? Remember, this would only be one meal out of at least three meals in a day, so it does NOT have to provide everything you need. Calories: the amount of calories an adult woman should have each day is about 1500. An adult man should have 2000. Considering that this is one meal out of three, do the calories of this meal add up too high or too low? (Hint: 1/3 of 1500 is 500 calories, 1/3 of 2000 is about 667 calories) Balanced diet: does this provide too MUCH of some nutrients and not enough of others? Are some of the nutrients less valuable types of nutrition (like saturated fat or sugar). Does it have too much of any potentially harmful nutrients (like sodium)? Micronutrients: does this meal help you towards your 100% daily amount of your required micronutrients? Are there other considerations important to your family that would make this meal acceptable or unacceptable (examples: need for quick convenient food, preference for natural/organic food, etc.)
*Special Note: A percentage is not provided on many nutrition labels for necessary amounts of protein. Consider the percent to be two times the grams of protein.
