Identify dangerous souvenirs! Nutritional information + calculation formula

Linkou Hospital nutritionist Pan Xiaojun reminds the public that when buying packaged foods, they should choose products with complete food labels and nutrition labels, and check the first three items of the food ingredients to understand what the souvenirs you are about to eat are. For example, the top three ingredients of pastries are mostly butter, flour, and sugar, while the top three ingredients of soft candies are syrup, sugar, and gelatin, which are all empty calories. In addition, you must also pay attention to whether the product name, weight (or capacity, quantity), name of food additives, manufacturing date, shelf life, and manufacturer's phone address are labeled.

Nutritionist Pan Xiaojun reminds the public that when purchasing packaged foods, they should choose products with complete food labels and nutrition labels. (Photo by Zhang Shijie)

In fact, you can identify dangerous souvenirs by learning simple calculation formulas. For example, you can use "calorie density" to determine whether it is a high-calorie food, and use "fat calorie ratio" to calculate how much of the calories you consume come from fat. Otherwise, the adverse consequences of eating fatty foods are shocking.

How to calculate caloric density?

• Caloric density (cal/g) = calories per serving / serving size

Calorie density refers to the calories per gram of food. If the calories per gram of food exceed 4 calories, it is considered high in calories.

How to calculate the fat to calorie ratio?

• Fat calorie ratio (%) = fat amount × 9 (calories) / total calories

1 gram of fat has 9 calories. The fat calorie ratio is the proportion of calories taken from fat. It is recommended not to exceed

30%.

As for healthy souvenirs, nutritionist Pan Xiaojun recommends: tea and pure coffee gift boxes, unseasoned nuts, healthy oils, whole grains, fruits and vegetables.