Create a table for your food items showing the “Composition and Energy Content” listing the energy value for each food type (mass of Carbohydrate, Fat and Protein) along with the total Energy. Example shown below.
Energy and nutrition projects
1. Create an “Introduction” section. In the first paragraph of this introduction, briefly describe the purpose of this assignment. Also write a brief paragraph(s) that addresses the following questions:
a. Are you currently on a diet now or have ever been on one? Add a description if so about the general type of diet.
b. If you’ve been on a diet, did you do any calorie counting or take into consideration the energy of the food you were eating? If so, what was your method?
c. Did you ever take into account how much exercise you’d have to do to burn off a certain meal or indulgence? If so, how did you calculate that?
2. Using your notes or your diary of all the foods you ate in one meal. Tell us if it was breakfast, lunch, or dinner. The meal needs to include at minimum 3 food items. List the food items you ate during that meal along with their amounts (or serving size). Include a picture of all the food items.
3. Review the Nutritional Facts for food each item.
a. If it is available, take a picture/include of each Nutritional Fact Label and insert it as a figure in your Word Document. Make sure it is properly titled.
b. If your food item does not have Nutritional Fact Label, research what the food item’s nutritional facts are. You are mainly looking for Carbohydrates, Fat and Protein. Include a picture or web link on where you found the information. For example, McDonalds has a web link that will calculate nutritional values of their food items. Example:
4. You will be creating tables and a calculation section for what goes into your tables. Make sure to label all columns and rows. All other calculations can be shown with the individual questions below.
Create a table for your food items showing the “Composition and Energy Content” listing the energy value for each food type (mass of Carbohydrate, Fat and Protein) along with the total Energy. Example shown below.