Pulses have about 10% more protein than cereals, and correspondingly their carbohydrate content is 10% less. The remaining 20%, as you know, is water. Cereals have about 70% carbohydrate and about 10% protein. The next few slides will help you not only avoid cutting a sorry figure, but also enable you to make a meaningful contribution to such discussions.ġ.37 Here is the approximate composition of a few classes of foodstuffs. If, being a doctor, you cannot answer such questions, you make a very poor impression on others. The other type is related to the energy content of units of foods as consumed, e.g. One type is related to the composition of foods for example, how much protein does soyabean contain. The questions you will be generally asked will be of two types. Since you can neither carry nutritional tables with you everywhere, nor can you remember them, it is good to keep some simple figures in mind all the time.
But food is such a commonplace topic of conversation that you will be asked questions about it at several social gatherings. In nutrition plenty of factual data is available in many easily accessible publications. 1.36 Even more important than knowing something is to know how to learn it, or where to find it.
