Experiment Report On Proteins In Daily Meals

Over a three-day experiment, I tracked what I ate and drank on a daily basis. Everyone has different eating habits-some people like to eat more red meats while others decide to cut meat entirely out of their diet. For me, I have always been a picky eater. I have had a hard time find ways to incorporate more proteins in to my daily meals over the years. During this three-day experiment, I noticed overall that I lacked the most in proteins. This didn’t surprise me because I knew going into this experiment, it would be one of the areas that wouldn’t do well. Referring to the United States Department of Agriculture, Women from ages 19-30 are recommended to consume about 5 ½ ounce equivalents of proteins on a daily basis.

To incorporate more protein into my diet, I have been trying to have more foods like eggs, shrimp, salmon, almonds, and more in my meals. While analyzing the data from the three-day period of tracking my food and water, I noticed certain nutritional areas did better than others. Looking at my nutrient targets recorded, I could have done better in areas such as fiber, vitamin b twelve and d, and calcium. My best nutritional areas were iron, folate, and vitamins a and c. The foods that were recorded and help me hit my nutritional areas were Cliff protein bars, raw red grapes, chocolate chip muffins, white cheddar Cheetos puffs, and a Subway Italian BMT sandwich split over two days. I was very shocked to see what foods helped me hit my nutritional areas because I always had the perception that you had to eat raw vegetables and fruits to earn all your vitamins and nutrients. Calories are units of energy we consume to survive. In my three-day experiment, there was not a cohesive pattern of calories overall. On the first day, I had a surplus of 858 calories, the second day was a surplus of 209 calories, and on the final day was a calorie deficit of -508. I do want to note that on the third day of recording data, I could not record my custom Salata wrap I had eaten that day. The wrap itself was around 900 calories in total so I believe if I could have recorded every ingredient in the wrap, my calories for that day wouldn’t have been a deficit of -508, instead, I believe it would be a surplus of roughly 392 calories.

Throughout this three-day experiment, and previously stated, I had a hard time with proteins and lacked them in my diet. I did not consistently meet my protein over the three-day period whatsoever. I am slowly trying to find better sources of protein to include in my diet because proteins have an important role to play in our bodies. Proteins could be considered “the building blocks of life. ” The role of proteins in our bodies is that they are broken into amino acids and digested for our bodies to be able to survive. Proteins also provide the extra, essential amino acids that you need that have to be supplied through foods. Good sources of proteins that I am trying to include more of are eggs, fish, and lentils.