Lesson 1: Food – What's in It for You?
Handout 3

Nutrition Information

Serving Sizes compared to common objects 

Visual Cue

Approx. Size

Foods

Woman’s fist or baseball

1 cup

Green salad,

frozen yogurt,

med. piece of fruit,

baked potato

Tennis ball

½ cup

 

 

 

1 oz

Cut fruit,

cooked

vegetables,

pasta, rice

Pretzels or

snack food

Golf ball or

Large egg

¼ cup

Dried fruit,

like raisins

iPhone

3 oz

Meat, poultry

Check book

3 oz

Grilled fish

Matchbook

1 oz

Meat

6 dice

1-1/2 oz

Cheese

Thumb tip

1 tablespoon

Mayonnaise

1 dice

1 tsp

Butter

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