Question

Choose one food label and calculate the grams of fat consumed if you ate the entire package. what percentage of your daily value of fat would be used at this meal? show your work.

Answer 1

First, find how many servings the package consists of. Multiply this value by the total fat per serving. The result is total fat in the package. The recommended daily value for fat is 65g. Percentage can be found by using the formula: is/of = %/100. Suppose I had a bag of chips. There's 12g of fat per serving and 4 servings per bag. 4 x 12 = 48. This represents the total fat in the whole package. 48/65 = %/100 --> 48 x 100 = 65 x X% --> 4800/65 = X% --> x = 73.8%