Understanding Food Labels

A lot or a little? (per 100g)

 

When looking at the amount of fat and sugar in a product you also need to remember the difference in calories per gram.

So when working out the true percentage of fat in a product you would need to multiply the grams of fat by 9.

e.g. A quiche contains 14.7g of fat and contains a total of 219kcals
14.7 x 9kcal/g = 132.3kcal
132kcal divide 213kcal = 0.6.
0.60 x 100 = 60%

This shows that despite the food being only 14% fat by weight the true proportion is that 60% of the calories are fat!! This is double the amount of a low fat food.

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