You should always read the labels on food to see if they are good for you. You should read the labels to see that you are getting everything you need each day. When you look at the labels don't get tricked when it says five grams of fat. You should look at the serving size on the nutrition label. The first two ingredients on the Ingredients List are the things that the food or drink has the most of. If one of the first two ingredients are sugar or an oil it is considered a junk food. There is a law that all foods or drinks have to have a nutrition label and it has to have the ingredients label.
During the Nutrition Fair we had people pick five boxes or cans and read the labels to answer the questions. The questions were like which food or can had the most fat and what has the least fat of all the different types of foods and cans that they choose. We taught people who came by telling them what all the things mean so they can answer all the questions and so they know what everything means when they read the labels they will know what it is so they eat healthy food a lot.
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Created 5/14/98. Deb Barrows - webster!