Unit Two: MAJOR TOPIC TWO: NUTRITION Lab: A Day of Food

Nutrition Summary October 14, 2008
Calories Fat Cal Fat Fat% Sat Fat SatFat% Chol Chol% Sodium Sodium% Carbs Carbs% DFib DFib% Sugars Protein Vit A% Vit C% Calcium% Iron%
Baked Spaghetti Squash with Mushrooms (115 grams)
83 27 3g 5% 0.5g 3% 0mg 0% 299mg 12% 14.6g 5% 3.3g 13% 5.6g 2g 7% 18% 5% 7%
Baked Spaghetti Squash with Mushrooms (115 grams)
83 27 3g 5% 0.5g 3% 0mg 0% 299mg 12% 14.6g 5% 3.3g 13% 5.6g 2g 7% 18% 5% 7%
Baked Spaghetti Squash with Mushrooms (115 grams)
83 27 3g 5% 0.5g 3% 0mg 0% 299mg 12% 14.6g 5% 3.3g 13% 5.6g 2g 7% 18% 5% 7%
12 Grain Bread (25 grams)
62 8 0.9g 1% 0.2g 1% 0mg 0% 120mg 5% 11.4g 4% 1.6g 6% 0g 3g 0% 0% 2% 5%
12 Grain Bread (25 grams)
62 8 0.9g 1% 0.2g 1% 0mg 0% 120mg 5% 11.4g 4% 1.6g 6% 0g 3g 0% 0% 2% 5%
12 Grain Bread (25 grams)
62 8 0.9g 1% 0.2g 1% 0mg 0% 120mg 5% 11.4g 4% 1.6g 6% 0g 3g 0% 0% 2% 5%
Spaghetti Sauce (125 grams)
136 54 6g 9% 0.9g 5% 0mg 0% 621mg 26% 19.9g 7% 4.3g 17% 0g 2g 31% 23% 4% 4%
Spaghetti Sauce (125 grams)
136 54 6g 9% 0.9g 5% 0mg 0% 621mg 26% 19.9g 7% 4.3g 17% 0g 2g 31% 23% 4% 4%
Fresh Steamed Green Beans (171 grams)
92 39 4.3g 7% 0.9g 5% 0mg 0% 46mg 2% 13.2g 4% 5.3g 21% 2.6g 3g 27% 27% 8% 6%
Quinoa (110 grams)
226 59 6.5g 10% 0.6g 3% 0mg 0% 112mg 5% 35.8g 12% 3.1g 12% 0g 7g 1% 0% 3% 27%
Quinoa (110 grams)
226 59 6.5g 10% 0.6g 3% 0mg 0% 112mg 5% 35.8g 12% 3.1g 12% 0g 7g 1% 0% 3% 27%

Totals 1251 370 41g 63% 5.999999999999999g 30% 0mg 0% 2769mg 115% 196g 65% 31g 124% 17g 36g 110% 128% 42% 103%


-How healthy a daily diet do you think this is? Why?

Very healthy! I’m a vegan but I’m not a dumb vegan I don’t just eat refined pasta all the time and think that that is enough. Everything I buy is organic; I only eat whole organic grains. The bread I eat is whole organic sprouted, and multi-grain. The sugars I use, although I don’t really like sweets by boyfriend does, are only low metabolizing sugars, specifically organic agave nectar, organic brown rise syrup and xyilotol. Not only are those sweet and low metabolizing sugars they ageave and brown rise syrups also have many trace minerals. I could go on and on, I am nutrition major, so when you get me talking I never shut up.

-What would you change about this day's eating, if anything?

I would have eaten some fruit. But I don’t go for an even daily intake, I go for intake over several days that seems like a better way to achieve balance to me. It would be a lot of work to get every little thing in each day, but through a varied diet over several days and taking a small among of supplements daily gets me to where I suppose to be. I am eating my fruit as I do this assignment tough.

-Do you find this kind of nutritional tracking helpful? Why or why not?

Yeah! I was surprised, it had a lot of options, however not everything I needed. But it was nice to see that my protein was that high even excluding the soymilk that I had that day.

And I would like to add the things the calculator did not have. I also had two teaspoons of agave nectar in my quinoa and about two servings of plain, unsweetened soymilk. The spaghetti sauce I had was organic and unsweetened. Also on my entrées I had extra virgin organic olive oil, granulated garlic, and Celtic salt. Also the bread was the sprouted bread, which I couldn’t find on the calculator, that bread has about the highest protein content for bread out there, so I think that, and the soymilk would bring up my protein by about 20 grams.

Also I apologize for the nutrition cart, I tried taking a picture of the screen with my camera and it looked really bad, so this was the best format I could come up with.