In the United States the food portions given at restaurants has increased tremendously in the past century. At the grocery store you can get about every snack in the family or jumbo size. Therefore I will inform you on what a serving size of each food group should look like and how much of that you should try to eat in a day. This will help you when looking at nutrition facts on food products and help you know when you've had enough you've needed for the day. This will help you maintain or maybe even lose weight.
We'll start the bottom of the pyramid with grains, pasta, cereal, and rice; then work our way up. You should try to have an intake of 6-11 servings of these carbs. According to dlife.com, a serving size for pasta is about 1/2 a cup or half of a baseball. Considering grains, a cooked grain servings size is 1/2 a cup and for uncooked the serving size is 3/4 a cup.
The vegetable group should be used in the diet for consumption of 3-5 servings per day. The servings sizes, according to 5aday.com, consists of 1 cup raw, leafy vegetables,1/2 cup of cooked, canned legumes, or 3/4 a cup of vegetable juice.
For the fruit group, the recommended serving consumption is 2-4 servings. A whole fruit, such as an apple or pear, has the serving size of one serving. 1/4 a cup of dried fruit is also a serving.
You should consume 2-3 servings of dairy products a day. One cup of milk or yogurt is always the appropriate size for one serving. One serving of natural cheese (cheddar, provolone, Swiss, etc) consists of 1.5 ounces. Processed cheese; such as American cheese is 2 ounces for a serving size.
The egg, poultry, meat, and nut group should have the consumption of 2-3 servings per day. The serving size equivalent to 2-3 ounces, depending on how fatty the meat is. This portion would look comparable to a deck of cards.
For the beloved fats, oils, and alcohol group, use these products as sparingly as possible.
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