Healthy Foods in Your Supermarket

Duration: 17

Year Published: 1981

Creator: Max Reid

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Description: Discusses characteristic advantages of unprocessed and natural foods over the growing number of convenience foods, stressing the sugar, fat, and salt contents of each. Overviews the Basic Four Food Groups as an easy way to a balanced diet and notes the primary nutritional contributions of each group. Identifies the importance of reading labels to determine the relative quantities of sugar, fat, salt, and additives in foods. Points out typical locations of healthy foods in supermarkets. Demonstrates easy preparation of tossed salad, omelet, baked chicken parts, rice, and fresh peas.