Question

Below is one day of caloric intake of Casey, a twenty five year old, 165 lb young lady.

What item in her diet provides the most protein?

	Food	Serving	Calories	Carbs(G)	Fiber (G)	Sugars (G)	Fat (G)	Protein (G)
Breakfast	Frozen Waffles	2 slices	206	33	1.6	3	6	5
	Maple Syrup	1/8 cup	105	27	0	24	0	0
	Orange Juice	8 fl oz	112	26	0.5	21	0	2
Lunch	Spinach Salad	1 1/2cup	161	17	2.2	4	7	8
	Boiled Egg	1	78	1	0	1	5	6
	Bacon Bits	1 Tbsp	33	2	0.7	0	2	2
	Ceasar Dressing	2 Tbsp	156	0	0	0	17	0
	Water	20 oz	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dinner	Grilled Chicken	3 oz	140	0	0	0	3	26
	Macaroni & Cheese	1 cup	390	41	1.6	7	19	15
	Mountain Dew	12 oz	170	46	0	46	0	0
Snack	Pound Cake	1 slice	291	37	0.4	27	15	4
		Totals	1,842	240	6.37	133	74	68

Answer choices:

O macaroni and cheese

O pound cake

O grilled chicken

O boiled egg

Answer 1

What item in Casey's diet provide most protein?

Answer: Grilled Chicken.

There is no Carbohydrate or fiber and the Calorie is 140. I gm protein produce 4 calories. 140 calories = 35 gm.

Macroni and cheese: 1 cup of macroni and cheese may contain 10 to 20gm of protein . Macaroni 1 cup may contain approximately 8 gm of protein . Cheese is an excellent source of protein   . I cup macroni and cheese may contain about 20 gm of protein.

Pound cake 1 slice : 3.5gm protein may be there in a pound cake of 291 calories

1 boiled egg: 6g protein

3 oz chicken: 21g . ( 1 oz chicken = 28gms , 1 oz chicken, grilled, may provide about 7 gm protein, so 3oz may provide about 21g of protein.