FOOD PROCESSING AND PRESERVATION
HIGH PRESSURE PROCESSING
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Question
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A company is formulating a new food product labeled as low fat. This means ____
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the amount of fat is nutritionally trivial
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it contains 3 g of fat or less per serving or 100 g of food
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it has no more than 25% of the fat of a comparable food
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it has less than 0.5 g of fat per serving
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Low fat – must contain less than 3% fat for solid foods (1.5% for liquid foods). Fat free – must be less than 0.15% fat. Percentage of fat – remember 80% fat free is the same as 20% fat, which is a large amount.
Detailed explanation-2: -Healthy: A “healthy” food is low in fat and saturated fat and contains limited amounts of cholesterol (60 mg or less per serving) and sodium (480 mg or less per serving).
Detailed explanation-3: -Low fat (i.e., 3 g or less per 100 g and not more than 30% of calories from fat). Low saturated fat (i.e., 1 g or less per 100 g and less than 10% of calories from saturated fat). Sodium: 600 mg or less per labeled serving.
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