nutritional

The nutritional information that can be found at the back of food packaging contains information about what is in your food. It should tell you how much salt, sugar, fat, protein etc is in your food.

Nutrition = the process of providing and obtaining the food necessary for health and growth.

Task: Make a comparison between two different food packages. See what you can find out. Write a brief summary about your findings.

Food: Samoa’s favourites chips	per 50g? Per 100g? Per serving?	Food:Tiny Teddy	per 50g? Per 100g? Per serving?
Energy	1.070	Energy	468kj
Total Fat	13.6	Total Fat	3.3g
Protein	1.75	Protein	1.9g
sodium/salt	210	sodium/salt	84 mg
sugar	0.05	sugar	6.5g

1) What can you say about the first package you looked at?

this is not healthy.

2) What can you say about the second package you looked at?

there is heaps of sugar.

3) Which food has better nutritional value than the other? Why?

the samoan favourites chip his healthier because it haves fruit.

Now take a look at 2 more food packages: What were your findings?