Vignette #1 Carly Is an Overweight 21-Year-Old Who Is Committed

Vignette #1 Carly is an overweight 21-year-old who is committed to good health after taking a nutrition course. She realizes that being a savvy shopper is part of the process and decides to learn how to look more critically at food labels. She picks up two different boxes of ready-to-eat breakfast cereal and sees the food labels shown in Figure 1. Help Carly evaluate these two breakfast cereals.

Carly decides to eat three-fourths of a cup of cereal #1 with three-fourths cup of fortified skim milk. Based on a 2,000-calorie diet, what percent of calories of carbohydrates will she consume?

A) 6 percent
B) 8 percent
C) 10 percent
D) 12 percent
E) 14 percent