Oakland Community College Wk 1 Nutritional Analysis Discussion
Description
Everyone has always heard someone tout the merits of beginning the day with a “good breakfast”. Using the knowledge you have gained regarding macronutrients, micronutrients, energy content of food, and phytochemicals, choose one of the four typical breakfast menus below and complete a nutritional analysis of the menu. For the initial response, discuss the positive aspects of your analysis and the negative aspects of the analysis. Then describe how you would change the menu to make it “good breakfast” and discuss why your revised breakfast is “good”. Use website link – https://www.ars.usda.gov/is/np/NutritiveValueofFoo… food labels, the Choosemyplate.gov website or another reliable source for nutritional values of the food items.
Typical Breakfast Menus (choose one)
Quick at home breakfast- 2 glazed doughnuts, 1 banana, 1 cup of tea with 1 t sugar
Traditional at home breakfast- 2 scrambled eggs, 2 slices bacon, 2 pieces of white toast with 1 T butter, 1 cup of coffee
Kid’s breakfast- 1 cup Froot Loops cereal, 1 cup 2% milk, 1 cup orange juice
Fast food breakfast- 1 egg mcmuffin, 1 serving hash browns, 1 ketchup packet, 1 cup apple juice
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