Let’s Take a Closer Look at What We Eat… Learning Targets: Today We Will: Take a look at Food Labels and what they contain So That We Can: Make Better Food Choices We Will Know We Have it When: We can look at Food Labels and recognize healthy/unhealthy choices

Answer Each Question in Your Notes… Bellwork Answer Each Question in Your Notes… Remember during our First Nutrition Lesson that they discussed “Power Calories”. What are those? Answer: A Food has “Power Calories” if it contains lots of nutrients (the food is nutrient-dense). Nutrient- dense foods are foods that have a lot of nutrients but relatively few calories. What are the Six Categories of Nutrients… Answer: Foods that contain vitamins, minerals, complex carbohydrates, lean protein, healthy fats, and water

How To Read a Food Label Correctly… Take a note to understand what “Low” means Under 5% of the daily recommendation Take a note to understand what “High” means Over 20% of the daily recommendation

Let’s Look at Two “Vegetables”

Healthiest Meal Game At Your Table… Jobs: Your “Team” is going to try to create the Healthiest Meal Possible using our Food Cards Must include all 5 food groups Jobs: 1 person: “The Gather” (only one allowed to get up from the table)-can only take 1 card at a time from a pile 1 person: “The Spokesperson” (shares out meal to the rest of the class) 2 people: “Decision-makers”-get to tell the runner to take a card back or keep it

Healthiest Meal Game Continued… Each Group will have approximately 10 minutes to create the healthiest meal possible that you might actually eat Must keep the meal under 800 calories Include all food categories Include at least 2 “Nutrient Rich” foods After Approximately 7-10 minutes… Spokesperson presents the meal to the class Winning Group Gets to leave first Mr. Wriska get to choose winning group(s) Tie goes to the group(s) that show the best teamwork

What Food Advertising Means Free: <5 calories/ .5 gram of fat,/<2 milligrams of sodium/< .5 grams of sugar It does not tell you exactly how much is present…it could still have other undesirable ingredients (ex.-no cholesterol could still have fat)

What Food Advertising Means Low: Little/ few/ low source of/ <40 calories/ <3 grams of fat/ <1 gram of sat. fat/ <20 milligrams of cholesterol/ <140 milligrams of sodium It does not mean the product is completely free of ingredient labeled “low”, or is free of other undesirable ingredients

What Food Advertising Means Reduced/Less: Describes a nutritionally altered food that has at least 25 % less of a nutrient or calories than the food it is compared to (ex.-breads or cereals) (ex.-chips to pretzels) It does not mean the product is completely free of the ingredient or other undesirable ingredients More: Added, fortified, enriched, must contain at least 10% more of the nutrient than the other food named in the claim It does not mean it is high in nutrient value or free of other undesirable ingredients

What Food Advertising Means Light/Lite/Lean: Describes a food that has reduced fat by at least 50% from the referenced food It does not mean it is low in fat or low in calories or low in sodium. It does not always pertain to fat

What Food Advertising Means Healthy: Describes a food that is low in fat and saturated fat and has <480 mg sodium and <60 mg cholesterol per serving It does not mean a person can go without exercise or other nutritious foods and still be healthy Imitation and Substitute: Describes a food which substitutes for and resembles a traditional food Imitation: it does not mean that the food is dangerous to eat, but contains less of one or more of the nutrients found in the traditional foods Substitute: It does not tell you what the food contains

So What Does All of This Mean? We all need to make sure that we eat a balanced diet What foods do we need to eat each day? Fruits Vegetables Grains Proteins Dairy Don’t Let Food “Labels” fool us