1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. Let’s Look at Two “Vegetables”

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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)

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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