Food Portions

When considering a diet plan, size does matter – the amount of food that is consumed. We are required to consume five groups of foods: Grains, Meats and beans, Vegetables, Milk, and Fruits.

In each group, a certain amount is needed and the total amount of calories to be consumed is about 2,300 calories. Consider this! How many of you measure your food when you put it on your plate? We usually pick up our plate and serve ourselves portions of what we want to eat, and we tend to reject other groups, such as vegetables. Most of us tend to pick and choose what we want to eat. This leads to the consumption of too much or too little of each group. Products tend to display the information about how much nutrition we are taking per serving, but how does each serving size look like? You are in luck, here are some common items to help you:

1 portion looks like this:

Vegetables or fruit – about the size of a baseball
Beef, chicken, or fish – about the size of a deck of cards
Ice cream – about the size of a tennis ball
Waffle or pancake – about the size of a CD (even in thinness as well)
Cheese – Six dice (die)
Rice or pasta – about a handful
Dried fruits or nuts – about the size of a golf ball
Peanut butter – about the size of your thumb

Easy? A little bit? Let’s just say that even a nutritionist will have extreme difficulty in creating portion sizes. Also note that each individual requires different portions of each group (some may require more vegetables while other require more grains). It all depends on age, gender, and the amount of physical activity.

Just keep in mind what portion sizes look like in order to help you eat the correct amount of food and avoid overeating.

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