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Nutrition

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Nutrition

Single serve size guide

Use this handy guide to get the knack of  how much one food group serving really is.

Veges 

3 a day

Fruit

2 a day

'Meat'

1 a day

Cereal

6 a day

Dairy

2 a day

  •  ½ cup (75g) cooked vegetables or green leafy vegetables
  • ½ cup salad or mixed vegetables
  • 1 (135g) medium potato, kumara, taro
  • 1 (80g) tomato

  • 1 apple, banana, orange or pear
  • 2 small plums (100g)
  • ½ cup fruit salad, stewed or canned fruit
  • 1 cup dried fruit
  • 4 dried apricots

  • 1 medium sized fillet fish
  • 1 small lamb chop
  • 1 medium sized steak (120g)
  • 2 slices roast meat (100g)
  • ½ cup mince or casserole (150g)
  • 2 chicken drumsticks (110g)
  • small handful nuts
  • 1-2 Tbsp seeds
  • 1 Tbsp peanut butter/tahini
  • 1 egg (50g)
  • 2 Tbsp tuna
  • 45g tinned fish
  • 2 fish fingers
  • ½ cup cooked dried beans, lentils, chickpeas (135g)
  • 1 soy sausage
  • 50g tofu
  • 1 slice bread (26g)
  • 1 cup breakfast cereal
  • ½ cup muesli or porridge
  • 1 medium bread roll (50g)
  • 1 muffin (80g)
  • 2 plain sweet biscuits
  • 1 cup cooked pasta, rice or noodles

  • 1 large glass milk (250ml)
  • 1 pottle yoghurt (150g)
  • 2 slices cheese
  • 2 scoops ice cream

Tbsp = tablespoon

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