NUTRITIONS FACTS AND FOOD LABEL ASSIGNMENT

You are the food designer at a major food company. Your job is to create new foods that they can sell. Make up a food that your company can sell. You’ll want it to be interesting and tasty, but still have some food claim that you can advertise.

·  Create the food package for your food. You must include a picture of the food, the nutrition label and food claims. Make the package interesting.

·  The food must make at least three food claims on the front of the package from the list of Food Label claims. (You may not use calorie free, fat free, no trans fat, or sugar free, or organic)

·  Your food must include a variety of ingredients and provide fat, protein and carbohydrates and at least 4 vitamins.

·  Create a Nutrition Facts label for the food. The facts label must have all information on the label. If you have made a food claim for this food, the label must meet the requirements for that claim.

·  If one of your claims requires me to know the amount in the “usual” version of the product, you must include this information for me. (for instance, if a product is called reduced – I have to know how much the usual product is or I could not know if your calories or fat are really reduced!)

·  Make your best guess on how many grams of protein, fat and carbohydrates are in the food. Look at nutrition labels of other products to make a best guess. Some suggestions and ideas:

o  Foods that are grain or vegetable based will have more carbohydrates.

o  Whole grain foods will have more fiber

o  Meat or nut based foods will have more protein and fat

o  Sugary foods will be high in sugar

o  Fried foods or foods that have a lot of butter will have more fat

o  Milk products will have carbohydrates and some protein. Depending on the type of milk they might have fat.

·  Be sure the total calories are correct based upon the grams of carbohydrate, fat and protein in the food. Use the formula in this packet.

·  Compute the total grams in the serving size by adding the total grams of carbohydrate, fat, and protein. (for this project we will ignore adding the grams for other nutrients).

·  Include a serving size that makes sense, or one that tricks the consumer! For instance, a 12 ounce can of super vitaminajuice that has 3 servings per container and claims to be low calorie. That means that you only get 4 ounces per serving but most people would drink the entire can!

·  The grams of sugar, fiber and other carbohydrates should add up to the grams of total carbohydrate (Example: if total carbohydrate is 15: Fiber 3, sugar 10, other carbohydrate 2, 3 + 10 + 2 = 15)

·  Grams of saturated, unsaturated and trans fat must add up to the total grams of fat

·  Make a guess to how much potassium, sodium and cholesterol there is in your product. Foods high in salt will have more sodium. Meat products and products made with eggs or animal fats will have higher cholesterol. Use your book to identify what foods are high in potassium. If these foods are included in your product your food will be higher in potassium.

·  Include at least 4 vitamins. You can guess on these unless one of your food claims is about the vitamins.

·  Be sure to include ingredients that make sense – see me if you need help or look at packages of similar foods!

How to get total calories:

Food grams x calories per gram = calories per nutrient

____ gr. Fat x ______= ______(fat calories)

____ gr. carbohydrates x ______= ______

____ gr. Protein x ______= ______

TOTAL CALORIES (add calories per nutrient)=______

To get total serving size (in grams) add up the grams of fat, carbohydrate and protein

Based upon a 2000 calorie diet, this is how much you should get of each nutrient:

Nutrient / amount
Total fat / Less than 65 g
Saturated fat / Less than 20 g
Cholesterol / Less than 300 mg
Sodium / Less than 2400 mg
Potassium / 3500 mg
Total carbohydrate / 300 g
Dietary fiber / 25 g
protein / 50 g

How to calculate %DV for a nutrient:

Number of gr. or mg. in the food / amount from chart above = ______.

Move the decimal point of the number above two places to the right to get the percent.


NAME:______

SCORING GUIDE:

POINTS POSSIBLE / TOTAL POINTS
Package:
Food is interesting and realistic / 25
There is a picture of the food / 10
1st food claim on front of package / 2
1st food claim is backed up on nutrition facts label / 4
2nd food claim on front of package / 2
2nd food claim is backed up on nutrition facts label / 4
3rd food claim on front of package / 2
3rd food claim is backed up on nutrition facts label / 4
Nutrition facts label:
Serving size in grams / 2
# grams fat, protein, and carbohydrates is equal to the amount of grams in a serving. / 2
Servings per container / 2
Total calories listed / 2
Correct total calories based on grams of protein, fat and carbs / 8
Calories from fat / 5
Total fat - Grams / 2
Saturated, unsaturated and trans fats add up to total fat / 2
Total fat - %DV / 2
Saturated fat – grams / 2
Saturated fat - %dv / 2
Unsaturated fat - grams / 2
Transfat grams / 2
Cholesterol mgs / 2
Cholesterol %DV / 2
Sodium, mgs / 2
Sodium, %DV / 2
Potassium mgs / 2
Potassium %dv / 2
Total carbohydrate grams / 2
Total carbohydrate %DV / 2
Fiber, sugar and other carbohydrate add up to total carbohydrate grams.
Dietary fiber grams / 2
Dietary fiber %dv / 2
Sugars grams / 2
Other carbohydrate grams / 2
Protein grams / 2
4 vitamins / 8
Percent daily values based on ... statement written on label / 4
Ingredients list realistic and included multiple ingredients / 10
Label format is correct and drawn neatly / 10
TOTAL / 150