How are you supposed to read nutrition information on food labels? For example, how to determine whether the packaged food is healthy or not depending on the amount of sodium, protein, sugar, carbohydrates it has.   I have included two photos of similar cereals that I recently bought and I was wondering which one was healthier simply by reading the label?
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I want to clean up my diet, and be more aware of what I'm eating and how much, but I'm not sure how to read a nutrition label.   I see the breakdowns of various vitamins, the calories and the breakdown of various elements (fats, protein, etc), but I want to be able to relate that to my daily needs. When I look at the ingredient list, I also don't know how much of each is in the food.  Can someone explain how a US based food label should be read?
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Giving citrus fruit to a baby that is just starting on solids is discouraged on several places online, however i cannot find any solid reasoning behind this advice.  Has there been any scientific research on this, or is it an (often repeated) old wives tale?   I ask because my 6 month old son loves mandarines.
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In this sentence      Green tea contains the vitamins and healthy properties of the green tea leaf, which makes green tea popular among health-conscious people.    what is the "which" referring to?? Is it referring to the green tea leaf or the vitamins and healthy properties?
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1a. &quot;Can you please tell me what is the food choice for a vegetarian?&quot;  Why is there no inversion in the example above? I mean, why did the native English speaker who wrote the example not do it like this:  1b. Can you please tell me what the food choice for a vegetarian is? or 1c Can you please tell me what the food choice is for a vegetarian?  I have been taught that, whenever we ask an indirect question, we have to switch the inverted word order in the direct question to normal sentence order as follows:    Where is the nearest hospital?(direct question)   2a. Can you please tell me where the nearest hospital is? (indirect question)   So could you please explain to me why this change in the order of words doesn't happen in the original example (written by a native speaker)?
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can anybody tell me which one of these is the correct one? I have been searching all over the internet but I have still got no answer.  Types of books Types of book
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Should I use labels for read-only information, or should I use read-only text boxes to maintain the look of the fields?  It seems to me that if something is in a textbox it implies there is some way to edit it, whereas plain text is explicitly read-only.  Update: While my question is similar to , mine is different in that I'm referring to fields that are never editable by anyone. It's not based on the user's rights or role.         &ndash; Wireframes created with
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How long can I keep salad dressings that I made?  Since this is probably affected by what it's made up of, let's say we're talking about different salad dressings made from a combination of the following ingredients: mayonnaise, ketchup, mustard, vinegar, sugar, garlic, oil, salt, pepper, lemon juice...  And are there any other ingredients that I should watch out for that could affect salad dressing shelf life? Any rules of thumb regarding storing salad dressings...?
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I've now learned (from this site) that broth and stock are not the same product (see ).   So, in any given scenario, why should one use stock rather than broth, or vice versa? i.e. What's the practical difference?   EDIT: I'm mostly looking for when to use one vs the other.
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So I have a question with my teacher's solution below and I'm confused about one of the steps in their solution. I would appreciate some clarification.  Two brands of coffee were compared. Two independent random samples of 50 people each were asked to taste either Brand A or Brand B coffee, and indicate whether they liked it or not. Eighty four percent of the people who tasted Brand A liked it; the analogous sample proportion for Brand B was ninety percent.   (A) At α = 0.01, is there a significant difference in the proportions of individuals who like the two coffees? Use the p-value approach.   So I circled in blue a step where I'm confused about in the teacher's solution. I don't understand why P(Z&lt;-0.89) = 0.2061.   On the z-score table -0.89 is equal to 0.1867 so shouldn't it be that value instead? where did 0.2061 come from? Is it possible that the teacher made an error or am I not understanding something?
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If I'm preparing a dish for myself and someone on a low-sodium diet, I will withhold adding salt while cooking.  Instead, I'll season my plate after serving.  However, I can't seem to get the same flavor from adding salt after-the-fact as I do when I'm salting while preparing the dish.  Is this all in my head or is there actually a difference in how the flavors are affected depending on when the salt is added?
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This has been discussed briefly elsewhere (e.g. ), but it doesn't seem to have been asked generally.  In the USA, there are a variety of dates printed on foods. Unfortunately, there seems to be little convention. The list includes at least the following (feel free to add more!):   Best by [DATE] Best if used by [DATE] Best before [DATE] Expiry date: [DATE] Expiration date: [DATE] Expires by [DATE] Use by [DATE] Use before [DATE] Freeze by [DATE] Eat fresh or freeze by [DATE]   What meaning is implied/conveyed by each of those?  For example:   What do each of those mean in terms of taste, quality, safety, etc?  Are any of them firmer deadlines than another, and are any intended to be mere guidelines?  Common sense tells us that "expires on [DATE]" means it's assumed to be unsafe after [DATE]), but does it say anything more -- or less -- than that, and what of the others?
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We are told to follow the RDI for a variety of nutrients. This is repeated over and over by teachers, guides, nutritionists, medical doctors and so on. However, when asked, no one can provide me with the actual source of how they came to this conclusion about RDI.   Who calculated this and using what scientific method exactly? Looks like a shot in the dark to me.   Where can I look at a study that proves that a human eating less than RDI will become deficient (showing clinical symptoms of deficiency of a certain vitamin or mineral)?
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I'm a bit unsure about which fruits and veggies should be kept outside the fridge and which inside. It seems that apples, oranges, and bananas, are normally kept outside, and melons, watermelons, etc are kept inside. How do I know which ones should be kept inside and which should be kept outside?  Also, apart from making sure that fruits are stored on a different rack of the fridge than veggies, are there any other guidelines about storing them? I.e certain fruits that shouldn't be stored together, or anything?
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What are the general rules regarding when can you refreeze food that was frozen and then thawed in the fridge? and what are the reasons behind them? (Hygiene? Food quality?). Let's assume for the sake of the argument that the items were in a non-frozen state only a few hours.  To be more specific, I'm interested in the application of these rules for  - Ginger garlic paste - Dough - Indian Curries - Green Chilly paste - Frozen green peas
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I wonder if there any difference in how many times I eat per day?  Let's say I eat one big meal in the morning at 2000 kcal (at 9am). Is that any different than having 4 meals at 500 kcal throughout the day (at 9am, 1pm, 5pm, 9pm)?  I think I will be hungry by the end of the day if I eat just once in the morning. But I won't be hungry if I eat 4 times a day at smaller portions? How is that possible?  Which way is it better to eat? Maybe twice a day at 1000 kcal? (9am and like 4pm?)
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Are the foods in the Star Wars Universe the same as ours'? Do they have strawberries or potatoes or something? I know that they might have some food other than the food that we also have, but I'm wondering if they have any food like ours'.
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I never know how to order food correctly but succinctly the first time. :(  Basically: I can't eat hot stuff (i.e. most pepper, similar spices, ...).  On the one hand, I don't want to say "Please don't make it spicy", because I really don't mind spice (heck, a lot of them are great!) -- I just don't want it to be hot spice.  On the other hand "Please don't make it hot" would seem to imply I'd like my food cold!  Possibilities I've considered:   "Please don't add hot spice" just sounds weird "Please don't add pepper" is the best I've thought of so far, but I'm pretty sure I've come across foods without pepper (or apparently so) which nevertheless tasted pretty hot. And not just that, but it would also exclude bell peppers, etc. which I don't mind much.   Any ideas for how to communicate this clearly? The fewer words the better, haha.