Title: Assignment: Calories - how to figure them and report them
Course: FST1000-Grant

Select a food Product (Other than water).

Record:

Calories per serving

Grams of Fat, Carbohydrate, and Protein

Use conversion factors (4 kcal/g Protein & Carbohydrate, 9 kcal/g fat) to calculate the calories from fat, carbohydrates, and protein present in your food product.

Add the calories from each of the three sources listed above and compare to the Total Calories listed on the Food label. Do they match? (Remember 1 kcal (chemistry) = 1 Calorie (diet) If not, have they been rounded up or down on the Food Label?