- Wren Kitchens has visualised your recommended daily intakes for fat, sugar, and salt in a series of photographs to offer some perspective.
- It found that a large McDonald's Big Tasty meal would tip you over the edge of your RDI of fat and that one venti Starbucks chai latte would cost you nearly half your RDI of sugar.
- The retailer also found that there was more salt in two slices of buttered wholemeal toast than a 50g bag of salted peanuts.
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This is what your recommended daily intake of fat, sugar, and salt actually looks like
It'll put things into perspective.
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When your recommended daily intake of things like fat, sugar, and salt are laid out in front of your eyes, it can put things into perspective.
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Retailer Wren Kitchens has taken the recommended daily intake (RDI) of fat, sugar, and salt for the average adult and calculated what this looks like in terms of portions of popular everyday items.
It found that just one McDonald's Big Tasty burger with bacon and large fries contains more than your recommended daily intake of fat, while just one venti Starbucks chai latte would cost you nearly half your RDI of sugar.
Perhaps more surprisingly they discovered that there was more salt in two slices of buttered wholemeal toast than a 50g bag of salted peanuts.
Here's what your recommended daily intake of fat, sugar, and salt actually looks like:
- McDonald's Big Tasty with bacon meal
- Starbucks 'Sure as Eggs is Eggs' sandwiches
- Dorset Cereals Honey Granola
- coleslaw
- Nature Valley protein bars
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- Sharwoods sweet and sour cooking sauce
- Sun grown trail mix
- Starbucks Skimmed Chai Latte
- cream of tomato soup
- banana custard yoghurts
- vegetarian tomato and basil soup
- tablespoons of Amoy soy sauce
- 4.6 rashers of smoked back bacon
- 9.6 slices of buttered wholemeal toast
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