Macromolecules in My Food

Calories per gram: 9x for fat, 4x for carbohydrates and protein

Nutrition Label Analysis: You will need to analyze three nutrition labels from different foods.
Food Label #1:
What food are you analyzing?
Carbohydrates in grams:
Lipid (Fat) in grams:
Protein grams:
Total Calories
Calories from Carbohydrates

Calories from Lipids (Fat)

Calories from Protein

Calories from Lipids (Fat)

Calories from Protein

Calories from Lipids (Fat)

Calories from Protein

Do you consider this a healthy choice? Why or why not?

Food Label #2:

What food are you analyzing?
Carbohydrates in grams:
Lipid (Fat) in grams:
Protein grams:
Total Calories
Calories from Carbohydrates

Do you consider this a healthy choice? Why or why not?

Food Label #3:

What food are you analyzing?
Carbohydrates in grams:
Lipid (Fat) in grams:
Protein grams:
Total Calories
Calories from Carbohydrates

Do you consider this a healthy choice? Why or why not?

1.You can get an idea of the overall nutritional content of a food from the first
ingredient in the list. Using one of your nutritional labels as an example, determine

what type of biological macromolecule predominates in that food. Defend your

answer.

2. Ideally, your foods should contain a ratio of approximately 55% carbohydrates

(mostly complex), 15% protein and 30% fats (unsaturated). Look at each food and
determine how it stacks up to the ideal. How do some of your foods stack up to this
ideal?

3. What types of lipids are present on the food labels? What types of carbohydrates
are accounted for? List ingredients which would fall into each of these categories
from your food labels.

4. Generally speaking, what type of fatty acid accounts for most of the fat calories
in your foods? Which of your foods is the best source of quality fats?

5. Which food is the best source of protein? What are some ingredients that could
account for this?

6. What biological macromolecules are not considered in the food labels?

7. Based on the carbohydrate, lipid, and protein contents of each food, which foods
would you choose to provide you with the most energy? Which foods would you
choose to help you build tissues? Which would be bad in high quantities for your
heart? Which would be good for your heart? Explain why.

8. After this activity, will you pay more attention to the types of food you are eating?