Introduction
Have you ever thought about the nutritional value of your food? Are you concerned with eating healthy or do you just eat? As a consumer, we trust the labels on packaging to tell us what we are eating and identify the nutritional value of our foods. As a food scientist, it is your job to determine what nutrients and minerals are in whole and processed food products.
In order to determine the nutrients and minerals in a food, we must first know which nutrients and minerals to look for!
Task
You have recently been hired by General Mills as a food scientist and have been given the task of determining the nutritional value of a new cereal, Flakes!
Flakes! is a corn based cereal flake with honey for flavoring. Since the product is a cereal, food coloring has been added to enhance product appeal and preservatives are necessary to increase shelf stability. The cereal has been fortified to meet the daily dietary recommendations for riboflavin, iron, and folic acid.
Your job is to determine the role of the 6 essential nutrients in the daily diet and develop an analysis report of the nutritional value of Flakes! cereal. You have received the nutrional value of the cereal to use for your analysis.
