This is what your recommended daily intake of fat, sugar, and salt actually looks like

• Wren Kitchens has visualised your recommended daily intakes for fat, sugar, and salt in a series of photographs to offer some perspective.
• It found that a large McDonald's Big Tasty meal would tip you over the edge of your RDI of fat and that one venti Starbucks chai latte would cost you nearly half your RDI of sugar.
• The retailer also found that there was more salt in two slices of buttered wholemeal toast than a 50g bag of salted peanuts.

Most of us know by now that some popular breakfast staples, such as cereals, have a surprisingly high sugar content, and that we should avoid eating overly processed foods.

Yet just last week Cancer Research said that millennials are set to be the fattest generation on record. According to current estimates, it claims that more than seven in 10 of those born between the early 80s and mid 90s are set to be overweight or obese between the ages of 35-44.

When your recommended daily intake of things like fat, sugar, and salt are laid out in front of your eyes, it can put things into perspective.

Retailer Wren Kitchens has taken the recommended daily intake (RDI) of fat, sugar, and salt for the average adult and calculated what this looks like in terms of portions of popular everyday items.

It found that just one McDonald's Big Tasty burger with bacon and large fries contains more than your recommended daily intake of fat, while just one venti Starbucks chai latte would cost you nearly half your RDI of sugar.

Perhaps more surprisinglym they discovered that there was more salt in two slices of buttered wholemeal toast than a 50g bag of salted peanuts.

Here's what your recommended daily intake of fat, sugar, and salt actually looks like:

Fat - RDI 70g

• 1 McDonald's Big Tasty with bacon meal (large fries) = 72g of fat per serving
• 2.8 Starbucks 'Sure as Eggs is Eggs' sandwiches = 25g of fat per serving
• 3 bowls of Dorset Cereals Honey Granola = 23.3g of fat per serving
• 5.5 heaped tablespoons of coleslaw = 12.8g of fat per serving
• 5.7 Nature Valley protein bars = 12.3g of fat per serving

Sugar - RDI 90g

• 1 jar of Sharwoods sweet and sour cooking sauce = 21.9g of sugar per serving
• 263g of Sun grown trail mix = 8.6g of sugar per serving
• 1.7 Starbucks Skimmed Chai Latte (venti) = 52g of sugar per serving
• 3.8 cans of cream of tomato soup = 23.6g of sugar per serving
• 6.7 banana custard yoghurts = 13.47g of sugar per serving

Salt - RDI 6g

• 1.7 cans of vegetarian tomato and basil soup = 3.5g of salt per serving
• 2.5 tablespoons of Amoy soy sauce = 0.8g of salt per serving
• 4.6 rashers of smoked back bacon = 1.3g of salt per serving
• 9.6 slices of buttered wholemeal toast = 0.62g of salt per serving

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