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Nutrition · Label Game

The Serving Size Trap

The number on the front of a package is almost never the number that goes in your body. Two labels, one skill: read the serving line first.

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Kara trains at 6 AM and grabs a bottled smoothie from the cooler on the way out. The front of the bottle says 210 calories. She finishes the whole thing at red lights on Carrollton.

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Every number on a Nutrition Facts panel counts one serving, not one package (FDA). This game hands you the real panel and lets you do the read.

Label 1 · The smoothie
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Mango Banana Smoothie, 20 fl oz bottle. Kara drinks the whole bottle. Here is its actual panel.

First move on any label: the two dotted lines at the top. Everything below them counts one serving.

How many calories did Kara actually drink?

210calories

Label 2 · The granola
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Honey Oat Granola, family box. Same trap, new disguise. Kara pours her usual deep bowl, 1 1/3 cups. No hints this time.

How many calories land in Kara's bowl?

240calories

Kara's day, two labels
Smoothie, front glance210
Smoothie, whole bottle525
Granola, front glance240
Granola, Kara's bowl480
What the glance said450
What actually went in1,005
0

calories the glance never counted, from just two labels.

Nothing here says put the smoothie down. It says know what the container holds, then decide on purpose. That is the whole skill.

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