Guessing Game -- Food-Related

[gnomi]

Below are two "Nutrition Facts" lists. One is for one serving of Reese's Pieces. One is for one cup of instant ramen noodle soup. Guess which is which! :-)

A:
Calories: 300
Calories from fat: 120
Total fat: 13g
Saturated fat: 2.5 g
Cholesterol: 0 mg
Sodium: 1270 mg
Total Carbohydrate: 40 g
Dietary Fiber: 1 g
Sugars: 1 g
Protein: 5 g

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B:
Calories: 200
Calories from fat: 90
Total fat: 10 g
Saturated fat: 6 g
Cholesterol: 0 mg
Sodium: 75 mg
Total Carbohydrate: 23 g
Dietary Fiber: 1 g
Sugars: 21 g
Protein: 5 g

Comments

[cellio]

As the others said, the salt and sugar are dead give-aways.

Nuts have a fair bit of protein (also fat to go with), so they make good emergencey-protein food in small quantities.

I'm not certain, but I think the ramen exceeds the US RDA for sodium all by itself -- and that's assuming you eat 2000 calories a day, which not everyone does.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

I don't know if it exceeds the US RDA. I cook with almost no salt, so the ramen, when I have them for lunch, is the majority of my salt/sodium intake for the day. And it turns out that the specific ramen cup I grabbed for the post was higher in sodium than the one currently on my desk (which comes in at 590 mg -- still high, but not scary-astronomical).