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If you’re looking for a simple way to eat healthy, use this handy serving size chart to get the right balance of nutrition on your plate. The American Heart Association recommends an overall healthy dietary pattern tailored to your personal and cultural food preferences.
Do you ever feel like the serving sizes on food labels, in restaurant portions and what you’re hungry for don’t line up? If you’re looking for a simple way to eat healthy, use this handy serving size chart to get the right balance of nutrition on your plate.
The good news is eating the right amount of fruits and vegetables doesn’t have to be complicated. Some examples of 1 cup-equivalent serving sizes include: Fruits Apple, pear, orange, peach or nectarine: 1 medium Banana: 1 large Grapefruit: 1 medium (4” across) Grape: 22 Kiwifruit: 2 to 3 Strawberry: 8 large; Vegetables
Portion size and serving size are often used interchangeably, but they have a distinct and important difference. Portion size is the amount of food you choose to put on your plate and actually eat. Serving size is the amount of a specific food or drink that people typically consume.
A serving is a measured amount of food or drink, such as one slice of bread or one cup (eight ounces) of milk. Here’s the breakdown of recommended servings per day for several kinds of foods for a 2,000-calorie diet with examples of servings sizes of foods within each group: Grains: 6 ounces (oz) per day.
Some examples of 1 cup-equivalent serving sizes include: FRUITS. 2 cups per day. ONE MEDIUM FRUIT = ABOUT THE SIZE . OF YOUR FIST. FRESH, FROZEN OR CANNED = 1 CUP. DRIED = 1/2. CUP. 100% . FRUIT JUICE = 1/2. CUP. VEGETABLES. 21/2 cups per day. RAW LEAFY VEGETABLE = 2 CUPS. FRESH, FROZEN OR CANNED = 1. CUP. 100% .
Our bodies need protein to be healthy and strong, but a serving is probably smaller than you think. Here’s what a healthy serving of some common protein foods looks like. Non-fried Fish – 3.5 ounces Lean beef – 3 ounces Skinless chicken &ndash.
*Servings are based on the 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans for 2,000 calories/day. Your calorie needs may be different. Servings equivalent may depend on form of food. For more information on serving sizes, visit heart.org/servings.
Serve whole-grain/high-fiber breads and cereals rather than refined grain products. Look for “whole grain” as the first ingredient on the food label and make at least half your grain servings whole grain. See the table below for daily recommendations according to age and energy requirements.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulates the Nutrition Facts label on packaged foods and drinks. In 2016, the FDA released changes to the label to make it easier to see how many calories and added sugars are in a product and to make serving sizes more realistic.