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 wants to stay healthy and decides to purchase the cereal that may help prevent heart disease and cancer. Which cereal would she buy and why?
a. ?Cereal #1 because it contains more protein per serving
b. ?Cereal #1 because it contains more antioxidants
c. ?Cereal #2 because it has less sugar
d. ?Cereal #2 because it contains more fiber
e. ?Both cereals would be equally effective because they both contain no cholesterol.
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