Name: ____________________________________ Block: ______ Date: __________________________ 
                                                                                                                                         PLANNING 10 
                                                                  Nutrient Label Assignment 
                      
                     Instructions:______________________________________________________ 
                          1.
  Choose three (3) food items that you regularly eat or purchase.  Items to choose are pre-
                               packaged foods like breakfast cereal, frozen dinners, soups, milk, chips, ice cream, pizza, salsa, 
                               chocolate bar, etc.   
                          2.
 Find a copy of the nutrition label AND list of ingredients for each of your food items online.  (If 
                               you would rather, you could bring in the can/box for your item and use the item directly to 
                               complete the below Food Product Table.) 
                                     a.
 Go into Google Images and search for “_______ nutrition label” or “______ nutrition 
                                          facts”.  If you pick a food and can’t find the food label for it, pick another food.   
                                     b.
 Once you find a label and list of ingredients, copy and paste it into Microsoft word.  Be 
                                          sure to indicate which food the nutrition label is for next to the image.   
                                     c.
  Print off a copy of your three (3) nutrition labels and ingredient lists.  Save your nutrition 
                                          label document to your computer in case you lose your printed copy.   
                          3.
 Fill in the table below using the nutrition label and ingredient list that you have found for each 
                               food item.  
                          4.
 Answer the analysis questions.  
                          5.
 When complete, hand in: 
                                     a.
 Your completed Food Product Table and Analysis Questions. 
                                     b.
 Printed copy of the nutrition label and list of ingredients for EACH food item.   
                     Food Product Table:__________________________________________________ 
                                                            Food Product #1                   Food Product #2                    Food Product #3 
                                                                        
                     Name of Product                                                                                         
                                                        
                                                        
                     Manufacture                                                                                             
                                                        
                                                        
                     Serving size & Grams                                                                                    
                                                        
                     Total                                                                                                   
                     Kilocalories/calories 
                     Total fat (g) and % DV                                                                                  
                                                        
                     Saturated fat (g)                                                                                       
                                                        
                     Trans Fat (g)                                                                                           
                                                        
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                                                  Food Product #1             Food Product #2             Food Product #2 
                 Name of Product                                                                       
                                               
                 Cholesterol (mg)                                                                      
                                               
                 Sodium (mg) and % DV                                                                  
                                               
                 Total carbohydrate (g)                                                                
                 and % DV 
                 Dietary Fiber (g)                                                                     
                                               
                 Sugars (g)                                                                            
                                               
                 Protein (g)                                                                           
                                               
                 List the Vitamins &                                                                   
                 Minerals:                     
                 % of Daily Value (DV);        
                 Circle the nutrients          
                 (calcium, iron, vitamin       
                 A, vitamin C, etc.) that      
                 are “good sources” (i.e.      
                 values >10%)                  
                                               
                                               
                                               
                 List any claims                                                                       
                 displayed on the labels 
                 (e.g. “95% Fat-free”, 
                 “Light”, “fortified”, etc.) 
                 Total number of                                                                       
                 Ingredients of Product        
                 List the first 10                                                                     
                 ingredients of product        
                                               
                                               
                                               
                                               
                                               
                                               
                                               
                                               
                                               
                                               
                                               
                                               
                 * % DV = Percent of Daily Value 
       Name: ____________________________________ Block: ______ Date: __________________________ 
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       *Note: here are some other terms that may be used to describe the following types of ingredients… 
       Sweeteners: Aspartame (NutraSweet), brown sugar, corn syrup, dextrose, fructose, monnitol, xylitol, 
       fruit juice, glucose, honey, invert sugar, date sugar, lactose, maltose, maple sugar, molasses, saccharin, 
       sorbitol, brown rice syrup, sucrose (white table sugar) 
       Fats: Cocoa butter, coconut, palm or palm kernel oil, cream, egg yolk solids, hardened fat or oil, 
       vegetable shortening, hydrogenated vegetable oil, cottonseed oil, tallow, lard.  
       Sodium: Monosodium glutamate (MSG), baking soda (sodium bicarbonate), sodium nitrite, sodium 
       saccharin, sodium benzoate, Worcestershire sauce, soy sauce, seasoned salts.  
       Analysis Questions:__________________________________________________ 
         1.
 Do you think that the serving size indicated on the food labels are realistic serving sizes?  Why or 
          why not?  Comment on all three (3) of your products.  
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
         2.
 Which one (1) product provides the best nutrition?  Use the information you have collected in 
          the above table to explain your answer.   
        
        
        
        
        
       Name: ____________________________________ Block: ______ Date: __________________________ 
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         3.
 What is the best part of each of your three (3) food items based on the label? (i.e. high in 
          vitamins, low in calories, etc. ) 
        
        
        
        
        
        
         4.
 What is the worst part of each of your three (3) food items based on the label? (i.e. high in 
          calories, high in sodium, low in vitamins, etc.) 
        
        
        
        
        
         5.
 What is the predominant ingredient in each of your three (3) products?  Does this shock you?  
        
        
        
         6.
 Looking at the first 10 ingredients of each of your three (3) products, how many of these 
          ingredients can you buy in individual quantities at the grocery store?  For example, if two of your 
          ingredients are mushrooms and sodium bicarbonate, which can you buy at the grocery store?