Herzing SC186 Unit 3 Discussion Latest 2021 April

SC186 Chemistry

Unit 3 Discussion

Kilocalories

Instructions

Please complete the following steps for your discussion post and response.

Find 5 foods that you eat regularly and determine the kilocalorie content according to the number of servings that you eat at a time.

Use this information to calculate the calories and joules.

How do food scientists determine the number of kilocalories that are reported on foods?

How does your body use this energy?

Explain if your body is able to use all of the energy.

Kilocalories

Instructions

In the response post, include the following:

Look up the nutrition label for one of your peer’s food. Include this label in the post.

Compare the recommended serving size to real-world serving size. Consider a candy bar is one portion, but actually is two servings as per the nutrition label.

Why would the food industry want to make the serving size smaller?

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.