Carly is an overweight 21-year-old who is committed to good health after taking a nutrition course. She realizes that being a savvy shopper is part of the process and decides to learn how to look more critically at food labels. She picks up two different boxes of ready-to-eat breakfast cereal and sees the food labels shown in Figure 1. Help Carly evaluate these two breakfast cereals.


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Carly is concerned about a family history of high blood pressure. Which item listed on the food label is she likely to check?
 
a. ?vitamin C
b. ?iron
c. ?sodium
d. ?zinc
e. ?fiber


c

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