Athena Irish D.

Lastimosa
BSN 2Y0-1

UNIT TASK 3
Study Questions
• Compute your food exchange list based on what you have eaten in your breakfast, lunch,
and dinner.

o Breakfast: 1 cup of rice, 2 slices of bacon, 1 fried chicken egg, 1 tsp Canola oil, water.

Food CHO CHON FAT KCAL

1 cup of rice 46 4 - 200 Kcal
2 slices of bacon - - 10 90 Kcal
1 fried chicken egg - 8 6 86 Kcal
1 tsp Canola oil - - 5 45 Kcal
Water - - - -

Total: 46g 12g 21g 421 Kcal

o Lunch: 1 cup of rice, 1 stick of pork Barbeque (2 matchbox of lean pork meat),
water.

Food CHO CHON FAT KCAL

1 cup of rice 46 4 - 200 Kcal
2 matchbox of lean
- 16 12 172Kcal
pork meat
Water - - - -

Total: 46g 20g 12g 372 Kcal

o Dinner: 1 cup of rice, 4 cups of chap suey with 3 quail eggs, and water.
Food CHO CHON FAT KCAL
1 cup of rice 46 4 - 200 Kcal
2 cups of chap suey 6 2 - 32 Kcal
3 quail eggs - 3 2 29 Kcal
Water - - - -

Total: 52g 9g 2g 261 Kcal

Overall Total: 144g 41g 35g 1,054 Kcal

Nutrition & Diet Therapy

Ma’am Shangri-la Juan
Athena Irish D. Lastimosa
BSN 2Y0-1

• Download a research article on any topic about Food Pyramid, Food Exchange List, Food
Labels, and Nutritional Guidelines for Filipinos from ScienceDirect. Submit a 200-300-word
essay reflection.

Consumer knowledge and behaviors regarding food date labels and food waste
Melissa Kavanaugh, Jennifer J. Quinlan

Despite not being well understood by consumers, food date labels are commonly used by
the food industry. Consumers may mistakenly believe that the dates of food labels are intended to
convey information about the safety of food, but in many cases, the labeling dates are set by the
food producer to indicate quality or freshness. Therefore, label date uncertainty may lead to
household food waste, which is a growing social, cultural, and environmental issue. This research
aimed to determine consumer knowledge about three common food date labels and their
meanings, and whether knowledge was related to behaviors in food waste. The labels were as
follows, “best by”, “use by”, “sell by” and “expiration” dates.

As a consumer myself I was very intrigued in this study because not only does it tackle one
of the questions that I have been asking myself whenever I read the label or buy food with
expiration dates. Since I was able to help my mom buy groceries, I was taught of the meanings of
the labels that I would see in the grocery store. I am no stranger to throwing out food that I find
are edible but were past their expiration dates. Usually, we would throw it out and it is because of
what was told to us by other people. In the study, they were able to survey 1042 adults online to
gather more data on how and why this happens. The final result was that respondents who
accurately identified “ best buy, use by ”were less likely to throw food away because it had passed
its“ use by ” date or became a shelf-stable product without a clear date and were more likely to
consider the “expiration date” as the only excuse to throw away an item. According to the findings
of the paper, consumer education around the least understood food date label, "best by, use by"
can help to reduce food waste.

I think this study was really relevant especially nowadays that everything is uncertain and
the food supply isn't so abundant, especially in rural areas and places where they can't or wouldn't
go out because of the pandemic, we are experiencing right now. I agree with the paper's findings
that consumer education would contribute exponentially, particularly in countries where food
waste is the norm. In these difficult times, it may be best to assimilate proper information about
this on the internet, as it will more effectively reach different parts of the world.

Nutrition & Diet Therapy

Ma’am Shangri-la Juan