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 is why a TV show like ``Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader'' can
actually succeed.
> 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.
That's, like, because 20% is one fifth of something. Another way of
stating the guideline is that no more than a fifth of the calories
should be from fat.
A sixth grader might also point out that twenty percent of something
is simply twice as much as ten percent, and ten percent is just
dividing by ten, which is just moving the decimal point.
E.g.
Total calories: 174.
Ten percent: 17.4
Twenty percent: 34.8
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