Q. Please tell me the food value found in chestnuts. We have Chinese chestnut trees and a heavy crop this year. I can't find out if they are nutritious, fattening or what. -- L.E.
A. Go ahead and enjoy a few "chestnuts roasting…" this holiday season. They are good for you.
Krista Kiger, a registered dietitian for Forsyth County, provided a nutrition facts label from the Web site www.nutritiondata.com for raw Chinese chestnuts. The nuts are low in fat, cholesterol and sodium and are a good source of vitamin C and manganese. A one-ounce serving, which Kiger estimates to be about 3 nuts, has 63 calories. Calories measure how much energy you get from food.
Explaining terms such as recommended daily allowance, daily intake and daily reference value can be complicated, Kiger says. So she recommends using the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's daily values to help determine a food's nutritional value. Food labels are based on the FDA's daily values. The numbers on a food label are based on a 2,000-calorie diet. Percent daily values of 5 percent or less are considered low; percent daily values of 20 percent or more are considered high.
The FDA's Web site, www.fda.gov, provides an easy-to-read guide to using nutrition-facts labels on food products to help you choose what to eat. Search for "understand food label."
Thanks
Monday while shopping at Wal-Mart on Hanes Mall Boulevard, I left my purse in the shopping cart in the parking lot. Many thanks to the person who returned it to the store. Hope you receive many stars in your crown. -- P.T.
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