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Nutrition Math
W
hen Lamar’s friend Ritesh arrives, he wants to find out how nutritious the meal will
be. Ritesh is also going to culinary school, but he’s focusing more on
nutrition
. He ex-
plains to his friends that everybody needs a balance of different
nutrients
in their diets.
Rashelle wants to know how fattening their meal will be, and if the foods are healthy ones.
Ritesh explains that
calories
, fat, salt, and sugar are all important factors in how healthy a par-
ticular food is.
Unsaturated
fat is better for you than
saturated
, he says. He pulls out his laptop and
goes to a website that lets him type in different foods to find out their nutritional values.
