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Webwise Stop surfing around and let AW Basics do the legwork for you instead. Every week we profile the most informative and inspirational sites on the net THIS is a great site to answer questions you have on the nutritional content of food. Whether you want to find out about an apple, or a banana or a KFC Bargain Bucket, the site gives you an enormously detailed breakdown of what makes up that particular food. It lists everything from fat, carbohydrate, protein, sodium and moisture content right through to the levels of vitamins and minerals. In addition to this, there are smart and useful diagrams such as a ‘calorific ratio pyramid’, ‘nutrient balance indicator’ and ‘nutritional target map’. Most popular high street food stores are mentioned, for instance, so AW Basics randomly chose the example of a blueberry muffin from Starbucks, with the following results. Nutritiondata.com told us that each serving of this muffin (or 140g) contained 380 calories, with 19g fat, 1g of dietary fibre, 28g of sugars etc. In addition to this, the site tells you the food’s protein quality, glycemic load and other such details. Specific information aside, the website also has articles on nutritional advice, there is a nutritional news section, blogs and sections explaining complicated areas such as fatty acids, food additives and fullness factors. There is also a very useful feature called a ‘daily needs calculator’. Here you insert your sex, age, height, weight and how much exercise you do each day and the website works out your rough body mass index, gives you a recommended number of calories to consume, plus some advice on the minimum amounts of vitamins and minerals you should be taking in. |
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