Changes in Portion Sizes Over the Years BARBORA

Changes in Portion Sizes Over the Years BARBORA AND PETRA LATTOVA

Portion Size: How much food you choose to eat at one time, whether from a restaurant, from a package or from your own kitchen; many foods that come as a single portion contain multiple servings Portion sizes of many foods have increased significantly over the past decades; larger portions are now offered including in restaurants, vending machines and packaged foods in grocery stores Portion distortion – the growing portion sizes (in restaurants) are changing what people think are normal portions at home

General Trend - USA: Increase in the total number of calories consumed In 1970 s: approximately 2160 calories Nowadays: 2673 calories This presents a 20 - 25% increase in the amount of calories consumed by the average American World wide problem

Reasons for Increase in Consumption: Increase of plate sizes Increase of portion sizes (generally people will consume more food when given larger portion sizes) Introduction of processed, shelf ready food Food has become cheaper and easier to obtain than in the 1970 s People look for who can give the most food for the least amount of money.

Movie Popcorn The average serving at the movies used to be around 5 cups, now it is nearly 11 cups

Bagel In 20 years the size has doubled, while the number of calories have increased 2. 5 times 20 years ago: 3 inches in diameter, about 140 calories Now: 6 inches in diameter, about 350 calories

Soda Average serving of pop used to be about 6. 5 oz (192. 2 m. L) Now it is approximately 20 oz (591. 5 m. L)

Pepperoni Pizza: On average, 2 slices of pepperoni pizza were 500 calories Now, 2 slices equal to approximately 850 calories

Spaghetti and Meatballs: An average portion 20 years ago was 1 cup of spaghetti with sauce and 3 small meatballs Now, it consists of 2 cups of spaghetti with sauce and 3 large meatballs

Average Meal at a Fast Food Restaurant: In the 1960 s: ◦ Fries: 68 grams ◦ Burger: 110 grams ◦ Soda: 207 m. L Now: ◦ Fries: 170 grams ◦ Burger: 226. 8 grams ◦ Soda: 946. 4 m. L

Mc. Donald’s: 1955 vs. Now https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=oq. I 4 r. R 6 l. XU 0

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