What does the Calories value on a nutrition label represent?

• A. Calories: total number of calories in serving
• B. Total number of calories in the entire package
• C. Calories per day
• D. Calories from fat

Answer: (A)

Calories on a nutrition label show the amount of energy you get from one serving of the food. This helps you compare how energizing different items are and manage how much energy you plan to eat in a day. It represents the energy for a single serving, not the entire package unless you’re looking at just one serving; if you eat the whole package, you’d multiply the per-serving calories by the number of servings. It isn’t calories per day, and it isn’t calories from fat. So the value shown is the total calories in one serving.