Nutrition project

Objectives:

1. To provide practical experience in diet assessment and evaluation.

2. To provide opportunity to set goals in relation to assessed diet intake and diet goals.

3. To provide opportunity to evaluate various methods of diet assessment.

4. To provide experience in using food composition tables, the My Plate and Daily Food Plan, the Recommended Dietary Allowances.

5. Identify foods that would help to achieve a lower sodium, lower saturated fat, high fiber and high calorie, high protein diet.

6. To provide an opportunity to evaluate and improve, if necessary, current dietary habits.

Project Components:

● 1 day of diet analysis using food composition tables and food labels (5 points) – Table 1

●1 day of behavioral influences on food choices (5 points) – Table 2

● Completion of 1 week of Vegetable Variety Analysis – (5 points) – Table 3

●1 day of diet analysis using the Daily Food Plan and FoodTracker. For full credit print and submit the following: (8 points)

1. Daily Food Plan Printout- (1 point)

2. Completed My Daily Food Plan Worksheet (3 points)

3. SuperTracker using Food Tracker – one day (3 points)

4. My Reports- Nutrient Report (1 point)

●1 day of diet analysis using any diet analysis program- on line, app, etc. (5 points)

● Diet Analysis Questions (42 points)

● 70 total points

General Directions:

1. Select a typical day of dietary intake to record. Write down everything you eat and drink for the day. Do NOT choose fasting or sick days. Try to choose a day in which you ate a reasonable amount of foods to analyze.

2. Use different days for each method of analysis, Table 1, 2, Supertracker and “my choice”.

3. Carefully try to estimate portion sizes and describe the food. (i.e. 1 ½ cups skim milk). Remember condiments, beverages and snacks.

4. Do not include vitamin-mineral supplements. You may include food based supplements such as shakes, beverages, bars.

5. You will not be graded on what you ate. Eating to impress or shock the instructor defeats the purpose of this assignment.

6. Do not turn in project in binders or pages inserted into page covers. Write your name on each

page and staple or clip together.

Review of Project Components

1. Diet Analysis Using Food Composition Tables and Food Labels (Table 1)

Using the nutrient intake form provided to you (Table 1) calculate the nutrient intake for each item consumed. You may use information from the food label, or any nutrition reference that provides the nutrition content of foods. The following websites are fun data bases that can be used as well