What’s on the Portion Sizes poster
A 6-row table: Food · Portion · Roughly.
Rough guides, useful when weighing is impractical.
- Protein — Palm-sized — ~100–150 g
- Carbohydrate — Cupped hand — ~40 g dry
- Vegetables — Two fists — ~150 g
- Fat / oil — Thumb tip — ~1 tbsp
- Cheese — Two thumbs — ~30 g
- Nuts — Small handful — ~30 g
Plate size changes intake measurably without changing hunger. A smaller plate is a simpler intervention than measuring.
Questions about the Portion Sizes poster
- What’s on the Portion Sizes poster?
- A 6-row table: Food · Portion · Roughly. Rough guides, useful when weighing is impractical. Protein — Palm-sized — ~100–150 g; Carbohydrate — Cupped hand — ~40 g dry; Vegetables — Two fists — ~150 g; Fat / oil — Thumb tip — ~1 tbsp; Cheese — Two thumbs — ~30 g; Nuts — Small handful — ~30 g. Plate size changes intake measurably without changing hunger. A smaller plate is a simpler intervention than measuring.
- Who is the Portion Sizes poster for?
- Portion Sizes belongs to the Body & health section rather than to a school year, because health is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning nutrition can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Portion Sizes poster?
- Your hand scales with your body, which makes it a better guide than a fixed weight. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Portion Sizes belongs on the wall where that health work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Portion Sizes?
- Added Sugar, Alcohol Units and Caffeine sit alongside Portion Sizes in the Body & health section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Added SugarAlcohol UnitsCaffeine
- Is the Portion Sizes poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Portion Sizes downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Body & health section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Portion Sizes poster print at?
- Portion Sizes is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Portion Sizes loses nothing.Printing guide
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