Friday, 11 June 2010

food analysis--energy and nutrient composition of foods

yup, here's another one we can use to analyse our diet! =)

it will ask you to either select the food category or type in the food you wish to analyse. then a list will be created and you will choose the closest match. we can also select other types of nutrients to analyse, e.g. starch, calcium water etc. and click continue. below is an example of the analysis:

http://www.hpb.gov.sg/hpb/ere/ere070105.asp

quite a good one to use, but i find it hard to get matches to the food i eat! especially because i usually eat at home, and the food i eat may not really have a name like Laksa or somehing. so i guess this is more for hawker centre or restaurant foods.
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here is a picture of one of my meals:






the one on the right shows the nutrient composition for the salad, and the keft, the instant noodles. wow! i didnt know that instant noodles contain so much energy! it is probably due to th noodles. comparing this to the RDDAs, i think the instant noodles may have too much carbohydrates! the total number of kcal we need in a day is only 2150kcal, and the instant noodles is already 1/4... and the protein should be just alright, since we need 66g in a day. well, this amount is somewhat less than my other meals, as lunch in the afternoon for me is always a very brief meal.. =)

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