Critique a Meal For this part of the assignment, you critique the nutritional value of a meal. You will select this meal from the USDA website. Follow the instructions below: • Access the USDA website at www. choosemyplate. gov • Roll your cursor over the heading Healthy Eating Tips. • Choose Sample Menus and Recipes from the drop down box. • Click on Food Groups Recipes. • Select one of the 15 recipe choices to critique. Review the nutritional information provided for the recipe you selected or added and answer the questions below. 1.
What is the name of the recipe you are evaluating? A: Spaghetti and Spinach Pesto 2. Which essential nutrients—carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, and minerals—are included in the recipe? A: Carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, and minerals. 3. Which ingredients are providing each nutrient? A: Carbohydrates- Pasta Fats- Oil/Canola oil and margarine Proteins- Feta/Parmesan Cheese Vitamins- Spinach, garlic, basil, and parsley. Minerals- Spinach, garlic, basil and parsley. 4. Does this recipe include a good balance of essential nutrients?
Explain your answer. A: Yes, because it has all the essential nutrients found in the pyramid food groups minus the fruits. 5. How could the recipe be altered to include more essential nutrients? A: Add a few bite-sized chickens and some type of fruit on the side or fruit juice. 6. Do you consider this a healthy meal? If not, what is a healthy alternative? A: Yes, it is because, it includes fats, protein, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals. Also, it is because it’s a healthy meal that is approved by the USDA.
The Essay on Breakfast and Healthy Food
India Why would Kellogg need to move into non-breakfast segment? The text informs us that “Kellogg’s started as a small manufacturer of breakfast food and has never lost that initial focus”. So how can we understand this change into a nonbreakfast segment? It is quite simple, Kellogg? s is re-positioning Special K has a healthy food product in relation to General Mills breakfast cereal. This ...
Part 2: Nutrition Questions Respond to the following questions in 75 to 125 words each: 1. Do you find it easy or difficult to determine the nutritional value of food? What are some methods to help you more easily determine the nutritional values of food? A: I find it difficult to determine the nutritional value of food because, it is hard for me as a mother to find time to measure out precise proportions or read every single label to make sure I’m getting a balanced meal, or even a snack.
One way to make it easier is by using the technology available to us in our everyday lives. There are some applications on the iphone, such as MyFitnessPal or NutriScanner, that you are able to scan the barcode on a food or beverage product and find the nutritional value of it in different amounts. 2. What environmental, economic, and psychosocial factors influenced your food and drink choices today? A: So far today my environment has influenced me because of commercials on the television and food signs on the road looking good and making me hungry.
The economic influence on my food choices today has been that I have not gotten to eat absolutely everything that I would have liked to because it’s too expensive. The psychosocial influence on my food and beverage choices today has been my friend buying me coffee and a muffin for breakfast and me letting her; probably not the healthiest meal but it was delicious. I have found that social interactions have a heavy influence (no pun intended) on the types of food that I consume (ie. football season and celebratory events).
