Food labels are one of the biggest things to read when you are monitoring your diet, whether your goals are to improve performance, health, weight loss and or weight gain. However, you can get lost within the tiny print in terms of calories, macros, sodium but how do you apply this tiny printed information??
3 MAJOR THINGS TO LOOK FOR ON A FOOD LABEL
- Calories per serving: making sure you see how many servings are within the package can make all the difference when consuming the food within the package.
- Macronutrient grams: Macronutrients are your Carbohydrates, Proteins, and Fats. Looking at the ratio of these macronutrients can help you determine
- Ingredients list: Looking at the ingredients list, whatever is listed first within the list is what the food product is mainly made up of.
New food label of Cheerios.
- At the top of the label shows how many servings per container and what amount is a serving.
- The macros for a serving of cheerios it is the number of grams of the total fat, total carbohydrates, and protein.
- The beginning of the food list shows what the food is mainly made up of. Even though this food only has 2g of sugar, it is one of the top 5 ingredients that makes this product. This is something to keep in mind if you are watching sugar or sodium within your diet.
Megan Training and Nutrition 
Great post about looking at food labels when trying to reach goals. They can be really confusing and this explains them really well. Look forward to more posts!
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