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Kraft®​ Macaroni & Cheese

NET WT 7.25 OZ (206 g)

1. Amazon sells a pack of 35 boxes of this mac & cheese for $87.00. One box has 3 servings. What is the cost per serving?

2. In December 2015, Kraft removed artificial flavors, preservatives, and dyes from the product. But they did not tell the public this until March 2016. By then, more than 50 million boxes had already been sold without anyone noticing. To achieve the classic yellow color, Kraft swapped out “yellow 5 and yellow 6” with paprika, annatto, and turmeric. What is the source of annatto?

3. There are homemade versions of mac & cheese that are less calorie-laden, like using chickpea pasta and unsweetened almond milk instead. But this recipe also calls for xanthan gum. What is this food additive?

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365 Everyday Value®​ Organic Sharp Cheddar Cheese

NET WT 8 OZ (227 g)​

1. Whole Foods sells this block of cheese for $3.99. The store also sells this same product, but shredded, in a 12-oz package for $6.99. What is the savings per ounce to do your own shredding?

2. Pule cheese (or magareći sir) is the world’s most expensive cheese, costing around $600 per pound. It is a Serbian cheese made from the milk of the Balkan donkey, an endangered animal. How many times more expensive is pule cheese compared to the sharp Cheddar from Whole Foods?

3. There are distinctions of mild, sharp, and extra sharp cheddar. What makes them different?

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Knudsen®​ Lowfat Cottage Cheese

NET WT 16 OZ (1 LB) 453 g

1. Target sells this tub of cottage cheese for $2.49. Costco sells the same product in a 3-lb size for $5.79. What is the unit cost savings by buying the larger tub?

2. According to a USFDA report, Americans buy around 600 million pounds of cottage cheese a year. Given that it takes a hundred pounds of milk to produce only 15 pounds of cottage cheese, how much milk does it take to produce 600 million pounds of cottage cheese?

3. ​Cottage cheese is an excellent source of protein and contains relatively few calories. It has many nutrients, such as B vitamins, calcium, phosphorus, and selenium. Cottage cheese is packed with casein protein. What is casein?

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Hass®​ Small Avocado

NET WT 1 AVOCADO (201 g)​

1. Whole Foods sells one small Hass avocado for $1.25. It also sells one bag of 6 avocados for $3.99. What is the savings per avocado?

2. Avocados have the highest fiber and protein content of any fruit! Avocado oil is also gaining attention. It takes about 20 avocados to make one 250-milliliter (eight-ounce) bottle of oil. Let’s say you’re able to make the oil at home, and using the price of 6 avocados for $4, how much would it cost to make a 1-liter jug of avocado oil?

3. On average, 53.5 million pounds of guacamole are eaten every Super Bowl Sunday, enough to cover a football field more than 20 feet thick. How many pounds of guacamole are in one cubic foot of guacamole? (A football field measures 360 ft by 160 ft.)

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Dave’s Killer Bread®​ Organic Bagels

NET WT 16.75 OZ (475 g)

1. Whole Foods sells this bag of bagels for $5.49. Noah’s New York Bagels sells a half-dozen of freshly baked bagels for $7.99. Compare their unit rates.

2. The packaging boasts that the bagels do not contain “high fructose corn syrup.” What is this stuff and why would a bread product contain HFCS at all?

3. Bruegger’s owns the title of World’s Largest Bagel by baking an 868-pound (394 kg) bagel on August 27, 2004 at the Great New York State Fair in Syracuse, N.Y. Let’s say you spread 1 oz of cream cheese per 100-gram bagel. How much cream cheese, in pounds, would you need for this world-record bagel?