. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jan 1.

Published in final edited form as: J Nutr Educ Behav. 2009;41(1):32–40. doi: 10.1016/j.jneb.2008.05.013

Table 3.

Average Portion Sizes for 12 individual food items (grams) for women who reported eating each food and comparisons to Standard Serving Sizes

Variable	Mean (grams)	Std Dev	Portion Equivalent	Standard Serving Size
Cake	136.7	98.5	3 two-inch square pieces (150 g)	80g^†
Vegetable^*	170.3	98.8	2 cups	½ cup^‡/85g^†
Chips	67.0	55.0	4 cups (2.4 oz., 68 g)	1 oz.^‡, 28 g^†
Cheese	72.2	61.8	2.4 slices (2.5 oz.)	2 oz.^‡/30g^†
Ice cream	195.4	107.1	1.13 cups	½ cup^†
Fried chicken	286.8	147.3	10.1 oz.	2–3 oz.^‡/85g^†
Hamburger	174.1	96.1	6.12 oz.	2–3 oz.^‡/85g^†
Red meat	94.7	54.1	3.3 oz.	2–3 oz.^‡/85g^†
Macaroni & cheese	428.8	255.9	1.75 cups	1 cup^†
Pasta	414.4	248.0	3 cups	½ cup^‡/140g^†
Butter on bread	10.6	10.7	2 tsp.	1 Tbsp.^†
Salad dressing	51.41	35.42	3.5 Tbsp.	2 Tbsp.^‡/30 g^†

Vegetable shown was broccoli, but participants were asked to generalize response to all cooked vegetables.

^†

Serving size from reference ²².

^‡

Serving size from reference ²¹.