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What is an exchange meal plan?

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Created: 2022-04-22 01:36:10

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The plan sets a serving size (amount) for each food, and, within each group, each serving has a similar amount of calories, protein, carbohydrate, and fat. This allows the person flexibility in planning meals by "exchanging" or substituting choices from lists of foods with similar nutritional content.


What is food exchange give an example?

A person can exchange the food item in the serving that belong to the same food group like carbohydrates, protein, fats and vitamins. For example a fruit with high sugar content can be replaced with the low sugar content food, may be useful for a diabetic patient for example a mango can be replaced by mulberry.

How many exchanges should be in a meal?

Each main meal provides three (3) carbohydrate exchanges and each snack provides one (1) carbohydrate exchange.

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