High or low fat food? Easy trick for figuring it out [Low-Fat]

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From: dkw12002 on 14 Oct 2007 21:18

On Oct 13, 12:35 pm, Steve <veganstir...(a)gmail.com> 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

From: joanne on 15 Oct 2007 01:02

Have read a similar multiply thing years ago by Susan Powter and lo
and behold its also in the alt.support.diet Faq too:

" For example, a serving of a brand-name turkey breakfast sausage
which is allegedly "85% fat-free" has 6 grams of fat in
each 80-calorie serving, and therefore gets more than 67% (6 * 9/80 =
0.675) of its calories from fat."
http://www.timinvermont.com/fitness/faq13.htm#34

So you take how many grams of fat a product has per serving, times it
by 9 and divide by its calories, which will give you the percentage
of fat to calories which may or may not be necessary to know as most
products now have this info in that they tell on the label.

joni

From: dkw12002 on 15 Oct 2007 14:54

From: Kaz Kylheku on 15 Oct 2007 15:22

On Oct 13, 12:35 pm, Steve <veganstir...(a)gmail.com> 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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