Food Labels - Part III - Understanding Them Is Critical To Your Health

Food labels contain a wealth of information about the healthfulness of the product if you know what to look for and how to interpret them. The packaging of a food product tells you nothing about how healthy the product is. It tells you what the manufacturer wants you to think about the healthfulness of the product.

 Nutrition Facts
The Nutrition Facts on food labels gives you information on calories, grams of fat, cholesterol, sodium, carbohydrates, dietary fiber, sugars, and protein in each serving plus some percentages of a few nutrients. What they don't tell you is that:


1 gram of fat = approx. 9 calories. 
1 gram of protein = approx. 4 calories. 
1 gram of carbohydrate = approx. 4 calories. 
4 grams of sugar = 1 teaspoon of sugar 

How to READ FOOD LABEL

How often when we go shopping we stare at the label sticker on the food product and wondered what it really means... I mean what does it says? with the figures on it? what is Amount serving? total carbs? total fat? cholesterol? and what are the scientific food means like? MSG? Sodium? Flavourings???  How on earth we ordinary consumers have a clue what it stands for?


Well.. to help educate consumers all around; here i found some of these useful articles that may teach us a bit on reading these labels. Good luck!


Nutrition facts


Food labels provide nutrition facts and information about the foods that your family eats.

From the amount of calories, fiber, and total fat grams, to the food's ingredients, the food label is your key to the nutrition information in the foods you provide to your family.


It can help you to increase the healthy nutrients that you want your family to eat, like calcium and fiber, and limit nutrients that can be unhealthy, like fat, saturated fat, cholesterol, and sodium.


And reading food labels can you to compare foods that you are going to buy and choose foods that are more healthy than others.

A cheezy Affair

Alo alo.. i had a cheezey saturday last weekend.

 it was a fun baking class conducted by my cousin and we get to learn 3 kinds of cheese cake (the basic ones) ; which is Strawberry Cheese cake, Marble Cheese Brownie (MCB) & Cotton Cheese cake (3cs)

my hands got to kitchen.. heheh

Ola ola... good news is Germany got 3rd placing in the world cup beating Uruguay flat down lastnite at score 3-2 victory.. well played Germany although we did expected them to go better..- but still well done both teams.

Now its the anticipating finals btwn Spain & Netherlands and im secretly rooting for Spainairds to make their mark as World Cup champion... hehe u can do it!

Nyways apart from BOLA NEWs... Lastnite i spend my time cooking for hubby! heheh
The idea was to give him an italian anniversary dinner (celebrating our 4th month wedding anniversary...) and i made him my signature dish - "Baked pasta".