I Feel Like Chicken Tonight



I Feel Like Chicken Tonight! Name:

It’s dinner time and you feel like going out for chicken! Compare the food labels from four chicken dishes at four popular fast food restaurants and answer the questions that follow.

1. Which chicken item has the highest total calories? Which has the lowest total calories?

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2. Which two chicken items have the most amount of fat per serving?

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3. How many times greater is the fat content in the KFC sandwich compared to the Subway one?

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3. Which food would be a reasonably good choice for someone who wanted to increase the amount of dietary fiber in their diet?

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4. In the United States, the recommended amount of sodium (salt) per day is 2400 mg. Is any one of these menu items a healthy choice for limiting salt? Why or why not?

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5. The chicken breast sandwich from Subway and the crispy chicken sandwich from McDonald’s have higher amounts of natural sugars than the other two. Examine the pictures and explain why.

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6. So, which of these four chicken items do you think is the healthiest choice to eat? Be sure to give at least two reasons why you made that choice!

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7. Circle & label the seven essential nutrients (except water) in one of the given nutrition labels.

I Feel Like Chicken Tonight! Name: KEY

1. Which chicken item has the highest total calories? Which has the lowest total calories?

|Highest: McDonald’s Crispy Chicken Sandwich |

|Lowest: Subway Chicken Breast Sandwich |

2. Which two chicken items have the most amount of fat per serving?

|Kentucky Fried Chicken Original Recipe Sandwich (27 g) |

|McDonald’s Crispy Chicken Sandwich (26 g) |

3. How many times greater is the fat content in the KFC sandwich compared to the Subway one?

|Roughly 3x greater (5 g vs 27 g) |

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3. Which food would be a reasonably good choice for someone who wanted to increase the amount of dietary fiber in their diet?

|The Taco Bell Chicken Burrito Supreme is the best option (8g of fiber) |

4. In the United States, the recommended amount of sodium (salt) per day is 2400 mg. Is any one of these menu items a healthy choice for limiting salt? Why or why not?

|While the Subway Chicken Breast Sandwich is the lowest (1000 mg), none of these |

|Sandwiches are good options for limiting salt content – all are above 42% of the RDI. |

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5. The chicken breast sandwich from Subway and the crispy chicken sandwich from McDonald’s have higher amounts of natural sugars than the other two. Examine the pictures and explain why.

|The natural sugars likely come from the fresh vegetables that can be added to the |

|Subway sandwich. Vegetables are a natural source of carbohydrates, including sugars. |

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6. So, which of these four chicken items do you think is the healthiest choice to eat? Be sure to give at least two reasons why you made that choice!

|The Subway sandwich is the best choice. The Taco Bell burrito is a satisfactory choice. |

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Taco Bell

Chicken Burrito Supreme®

Kentucky Fried Chicken

Original Recipe Sandwich

McDonald’s

Crispy Chicken Sandwich

Subway

Chicken Breast Sandwich

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