Tracking caloric intake helps reveal whether everyday meals stay within healthy limits. Fast food convenience may come at a nutritional cost, and this project measures that cost with real data by comparing what people order to recommended daily nutritional standards.

Dietary fat gives your body stored energy, but eating too much can push you past healthy limits. This project checks whether a typical fast food meal exceeds the recommended daily limits for fat. You look up the nutritional values online and compare them to recommended daily standards to see how much fat common meals contribute.

Asking people what they eat gets more useful when the survey captures specific details. You survey 120 people across four age groups about how often they eat fast food and what they order, noting details like drink sizes and added sauces. You then look up the nutritional values online and compare them to recommended daily standards — a direct application of how nutrition surveys collect self-reported data to study eating patterns.

Fast food meals may tilt a balanced diet heavily toward fat and sodium while leaving other nutritional needs unmet. To measure that gap, you survey 120 people across four age groups about how often they eat fast food and what they order — noting specific details like drink sizes and added sauces. Then you look up the nutritional values online and compare them to recommended daily standards. The results reveal how closely fast food habits align with healthy eating guidelines, and how a single meal can consume a large share of one nutrient while providing little of others.