What do you do when a recipe calls for a specific amount of an ingredient, but you don’t have the tools to measure or weigh it? When you’re out at a restaurant, how do you know what qualifies as 4 ounces of steak?
It’s tempting to shrug and say, “Ah, close enough.” But the preferred way is to follow guidelines from the USDA’s Nutrition Data Laboratory, which provides real-world comparisons for measurements. Take a heaping helping of our quiz:
1.Your dietitian tells you to eat only a half-cup of cooked rice. That amounts to what?
a) The volume of a golf ball b) The volume of half a baseball
c) The volume of two tennis balls
2.One cup of broccoli equates to what?
a) The size of a light bulb
b) The size of a man’s wallet
c) The size of a balled-up fist
3. A medium baked potato should have the size (but we hope not the taste) of what?
a) A tennis ball
b) A computer mouse
c) A paperback book
4.Three ounces of cooked chicken is akin to what?
a) A deck of playing cards
b) diameter of a compact disc
c) A medium bar of soap
5. One ounce of hard cheese should be no bigger than what?
a) The fist of a small child
b) The size of an average person’s thumb
c) The size of one die (not two dice)
ANSWERS: 1: b; 2: a; 3: b; 4: a; 5: b
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