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Part 1: Information regarding portion size

It is key to understand that all the information included in a Nutrition Facts table is based on one single portion and there are food packages which contain more than one portion. To understand this concept, let’s look at the following example:

In the above table we have marked the portions section. In this example, one portion is equal to one cup and there are two cups per package. It is recommended to eat only one portion, but if you are going to eat the two full portions in the package, you must bear in mind that the daily amounts of nutrients must be multiplied by 2.