What is 30% fats?

30% fats means that out of everything you eat, fats make up three-tenths of it, like having 3 big scoops of ice cream in a bowl of 10 scoops total.

What does "30%" really mean?

Imagine you have a plate with 10 cookies. If 30% are chocolate chip, that means 3 of those cookies have chocolate chips, the rest are something else, like sugar or oatmeal.

Fats in your food

Now think about a bowl of yogurt. Some yogurts say they’re 30% fats. That means for every 10 parts of yogurt you eat, 3 parts are fats, and the other 7 parts are things like milk or sugar.

Fats can be found in foods like cheese, butter, nuts, and even chocolate, all of them make your food feel rich and tasty! So when something says it’s 30% fats, you know it has a nice, creamy flavor that makes your mouth happy.

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Examples

  1. A meal with 30% fats might be like eating a sandwich with lots of cheese and butter.
  2. If you eat a pizza, the cheese and oil on it could make up about 30% of your total calories from fat.
  3. A snack with nuts and chocolate has around 30% fats.

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