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Practice Your Skills—Compare Your Choices
Next time you are at the grocery store choose one food that you buy on a regular basis and examine the Nutrition Facts Panel. A good place to start would be breakfast cereal or yogurt. Check out the serving size, calories per serving, and % Daily Value for fat and sodium. Compare that product to a similar products. Does the product you usually consume have more or less or any nutrient than you thought? Were there products that were similar that may be a better choice for your overall diet? If so, give the new product a try; you may be willing to make a trade-off to make your usual choice the healthier choice.
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Compare Breakfast Cereals | Special K Red Berries | Multigrain Cheerios | General Mills Kix | Serving Size | 1 cup | 1 cup | 1.25 cups | Calories per serving | 110 | 110 | 110 | Fat grams | 0g | 1 g | 1 g | Sodium milligrams | 190 mg | 120 mg | 180 mg | -------------------------------------------------
Compare Yogurts | Chobani Greek Strawberry Yogurt | Dannon Light & Fit Greek Strawberry Yogurt | Chobani Simply Fit 100 Cal Strawberry Yogurt | Serving Size | 8 oz | 5.3 oz | 5.3 oz | Calories per serving | 190 | 80 | 100 | Fat grams | 0g | 0g | 0g | Sodium milligrams | 90mg | 55mg | 65mg |
Based on what you found in this activity, will you change the cereal or yogurt that you usually buy? Why or why not? For the cereals, all three are ones that I buy, but I buy the Special K red berries the most because I thought it was the healthiest because of the strawberries in it. However, I have found that for similar or better nutritional value I should focus on buying Kix cereal. I would be happy with this change because I have loved kix since I was a kid and I thought it wouldn’t be as healthy as ‘adult’ cereal. For the yogurt, I might try Chobani’s simply fit line for greek yogurts. I am actually lactose intolerant but when I do have a yogurt the Greek yogurt seems to hurt my stomach less so that’s why all my choices are greek yogurt. I have been pretty faithful to the Chobani brand, but it wouldn’t hurt to try Dannon’s brand. Both seem to be a better choice than the original Chobani that I normally buy. All of the alternatives have lower sodium amounts per serving than what I normally buy for both cereal and yogurt. I could definitely use a change.
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