Case Study Of Nutritional Content In Food And Drinks

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The campus bookstore is where many students go to buy snacks, lunch, and beverages. It is only one of two available options on-campus. The other option is to buy food and drinks from the café. However, the store only sells hot food and full meals. It is also hard for students to know what the nutritional content of each item they are buying contains. Understanding the nutritional content in food and drinks is important for maintaining a healthy diet. To help track what nutrients are consumed the Nutrition Facts label was created by the Federal Food and Drug Administration. It was then required for food and drinks to come with a nutrition facts label in the 1990s. The nutrition facts label is based on what the FDA recommends …show more content…

Carbohydrates are a good source for energy. However, the body can only burn a certain amount of carbs before those carbs are stored and are turned into fat. Figure 4

Nuts & Seeds had the least amount of carbohydrates. Again, pastries had the most amount of carbs. At this point it would be best to avoid eating pastries.
Pastries and Sandwiches have the highest percentage of total fats. Figure 5 also shows that candy and snacks have the least amount of total fats.
Eating Nuts & Seeds and select chips would be the best option. A reason why the chips remained low is because their serving sizes were lower than other food products. They also included “healthy” chips like Kale chips.

Figure 5

The campus store also sells several different drinks as well. Unlike, food, the drinks did not contain a significant amount of fats, therefore, fats were not accounted for.
Drinks are one the easiest ways to overconsume calories, sugar, and carbs. Drinking does not enable the stomach to feel full, so it can be hard to know when to stop …show more content…

Surprisingly, the store had quite a few energy drinks that had little to no calories. This can be seen in Figure 6.

Figure 6

Drinking low calorie energy drinks would be better than drinking protein shakes. Unless, a person is active enough to burn the amount of calories in protein shakes they should avoid them.
Soda had less calories than coffee drinks and this is due to that fact that some of the coffee drinks had crème or were flavored. Despite not having the highest amount of calories, it did have the most sugar. As seen in Figure 7.

Figure 7

The protein shakes had the least of amount of sugar which is interesting given that fact that it had the most calories. Energy drinks have relatively low amounts of sugar as well, thanks to the zero calorie energy drinks. However, this could also be due to the fact that nutrition labels on 20 oz. soda bottles were 1 serving and labels on energy drinks were 2 servings even though they were in one can. Drinks have carbohydrates even though it may seem like they do not have carbs. This is why it is important to check label. One of the first images that comes to mind when people think of carbs is bread or pasta. But, carbs can still come in liquid

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