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Question
1. Find a label with two or more different kinds of sugars. What are those sugars? What is the food?
2. What is the most important sugar used in the human body? Why is it the most important?
3. What are other dietary sources of carbohydrates? What are the dietary requirements of carbohydrates in the human body?
4. Find a label with an allergen warning. What is the food? What allergens are listed?
5. Find an ingredient label that is all natural. List the ingredients. What is the food?
6. Find a product that contains silicon dioxide. What is this ingredient and what is its function? What is the food?
7. Find a label with high fructose corn syrup (HFCS). What is this ingredient and why is it controversial? Use the internet to find one argument for using this product and one argument for banning this product.
8. Find a label with cholesterol in it. What is the food?
9. What is cholesterol? What is an HDL? What is an LDL? What are the recommendations for appropriate levels of total cholesterol, HDL, and LDL?
10. What was the most surprising label you looked at and why?
11. Fill in the table.
Table 1: Macronutrients
Macronutrient
Dietary Source
Primary Use in the Body