On Oct 13, 12:35 pm, Steve <veganstir...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> I was reading a nutrition forum where I found a post by a guy who
> figured out an easy way to tell if a packaged food is high fat or low
> fat. This method is so easy, you can do the math in your head.
>
> A food is considered "high fat" is more than 20% of its calories come
> from fat.
>
> A food is considered "low fat" if less than 20% of its calories come
> from fat.
>
> So, here is this cool, do-math-in-your-head method for figuring out if
> a food is high or low fat:
>
> 1. Multiply the calories from fat by 5
> 2. Compare the result from #1 to the Total Calories.
> 3. If the result from #1 is more than the Total Calories, the food is
> high fat
> 4. If the result from #1 is less than the Total Calories, you have a
> low fat food.
Right. This puts 1% milk with 100 cal per cup and 22 cal. from fat
into the high fat category which it is. The only other way companies
hide their fat is to make the serving size so small as to make it seem
the product is low fat, yet most people use much, much more of the
product....like spray oils, for example. They use the gimmick of
rounding down to do this making it look to the casual observer that
the spray oil is low fat where in fact is is almost ALL fat. Your
technique works well with most foods though. Good post. dkw
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