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Read the nutrition label on each of the following foods and write the first four ingredients of each: (If any of these products are not in your home, gather this information on a field trip to the local grocery store.)

Breakfast cereal
Ice cream
Candy bar
Canned or frozen fruit
Soda
Write a short paragraph answering the following questions:

After reading the labels, were you surprised by any of the ingredient lists? If so, which ones and why?
Which food do you think is probably the most nutritious? Why?
Which do you think is the least nutritious? Why?


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Answer:

Cereal: Steel-cut oats, corn, sugar, partially hydrogenated vegetable oil, and salt.

Ice cream: Cane sugar, heavy cream, corn syrup, vanilla extract, milkfat, sodium benzoate (preservative).

Candy bar: Brown sugar, corn syrup, chocolate, butter, salt, milk, vanilla extract.

Fruit: Water, sugar, citric acid, pectin, colors (red 40, yellow 5, blue 1).

Soda: High-fructose corn syrup, carbonated water, potassium benzoate, sodium citrate.

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