Vignette #1 Carly Is an Overweight 21-Year-Old Who Is Committed

question 41

Multiple Choice

Vignette #1 Carly is an overweight 21-year-old who is committed to good health after taking a nutrition course. She realizes that being a savvy shopper is part of the process and decides to learn how to look more critically at food labels. She picks up two different boxes of ready-to-eat breakfast cereal and sees the food labels shown in Figure 1. Help Carly evaluate these two breakfast cereals.

Carly decides to eat three-fourths of a cup of cereal #1 with three-fourths cup of fortified skim milk. Based on a 2,000 calorie diet, what percent of calories of carbohydrates will she consume?

• A) 6 percent
• B) 8 percent
• C) 10 percent
• D) 12 percent
• E) 14 percent

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