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.
Using the calorie summary information in the accompanying figure, what is the percentage of calories from fat in cereal #1?
a. n?9 percent
b. ?14 percent
c. ?26 percent
d. ?31 percent
e. ?43 percent
e
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