A bag of crackers lists 'Serving size: 16g (about 5 crackers), Servings per container: 7, Calories: 70 per serving.' You eat the whole bag. How many calories did you consume?
A70
B280
C490
D560
Total calories = calories per serving × servings per container = 70 × 7 = 490. Nutrition Facts report values per serving, not per package. Eating the entire bag means consuming all 7 servings. This is one of the most commonly missed calculations — the serving size and servings-per-container line must be read first before any other numbers mean anything.
Question 2 True / False
A yogurt labeled 'fat-free' necessarily has fewer calories than the regular full-fat version of the same yogurt.
TTrue
FFalse
Answer: False
When fat is removed from a product, manufacturers often add sugar, starches, or thickeners to restore flavor and texture. These additions contribute calories, so the fat-free version may have a similar or higher calorie count than the full-fat version. The front-of-package 'fat-free' claim tells you only about fat content — you must compare the full Nutrition Facts panel to assess total calories.
Question 3 Short Answer
A cereal's ingredient list reads: 'Whole grain oats, sugar, corn syrup, honey, dextrose, oat flour, salt.' Sugar is listed second. Why might a nutrition expert still consider sugar the dominant ingredient?
Think about your answer, then reveal below.
Model answer: Sugar appears in multiple forms — sugar, corn syrup, honey, and dextrose are all sweeteners. Their combined weight likely exceeds the weight of whole grain oats, but because each is listed as a separate ingredient, no single sugar entry appears at the top of the list.
Ingredients are ranked individually by weight. Manufacturers can split sugar into several different forms, each in a smaller amount, so that each individual sweetener ranks lower on the list than the leading ingredient. This practice — sometimes called 'ingredient splitting' — means the listed order of individual ingredients can understate the true dominance of sugar. Adding all sweetener weights together reveals the actual proportion.