Mariahs Food Analysis Project

The serving sizes are not very realistic at all, they tell you how many calories in bold print, then in small lettering underneath explain how much of the food makes up that amount of calories. An example would be if you looked at a bag of chips and it said 180 calories. You would assume it meant the whole bag. In reality thats not it at all. If you look underneath the amount of calories where it says serving amount you will something like 6 chips, meaning 6 chips=180 calories so the entire bag would probably be around 300. Yes, the differnce in serving sizes help explain their nutritional values. It shows that some food is more healthy than others because you can eat more of it and it will still be less calories.
No, not all the claims refer to the nutritional content. They may claim to have 30% of your daily fiber when it's really only 25%. I find the lying claims misleading. It's ot really lying, more of exagerating or rounding off. Say a box of pretzelscomes out to be 225 calories, the company may just round it off to 200 so people will think "wow, thats not a lot of calories, I'm going to buy this!"I learned that you can't always trust food labels. Alsoit was very interesing to see how similar the ingredients were for two of my products, and how similar the amount of fat, sodium, toatal carbs etc. were.