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CLICK HERE to see the nutrient chart If I take 100 grams of coconut then how can I physically have fats in that which are 150% ?

Its physically understandable that coconut has 5% carbohydrates that is every 100 gm of coconut has 5 gm carbohydrate. But what's the physical meaning of coconut having 150% fats ? How many grams fats are there in 100 gm coconut ?

ComputerMaster
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    150 % of what? – dxiv Jul 07 '17 at 04:46
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    If you are looking at nutritional amounts, these are often percentages of your recommended daily intake. – JMoravitz Jul 07 '17 at 04:47
  • @dxiv I think if OP could answer your emphatic question, they wouldn't have the question in the first place. Wouldn't you agree? – layman Jul 07 '17 at 04:48
  • Its physically understandable that coconut has 5% carbohydrates that is every 100 gm of coconut has 5 gm carbohydrate. But what's the physical meaning of coconut having 150% fats ? How many grams fats are there in 100 gm coconut ? – ComputerMaster Jul 07 '17 at 04:49
  • @user46944 150%. – dxiv Jul 07 '17 at 04:49
  • Where have you found this statistic? dxiv is correct that as it stands we're missing information. – postmortes Jul 07 '17 at 04:51
  • google as "coconut nutrients" and you will see percent break up of its nutrients on first page itself – ComputerMaster Jul 07 '17 at 04:52
  • @ComputerMaster Percentages are a relative ratio based on some reference number. Your 150 % describes the ratio, but it makes no absolute sense unless you specify what the reference number is that you compare to. Sorry, voting to close as "unintelligible" until/unless you clarify that point. – dxiv Jul 07 '17 at 04:53
  • @ComputerMaster P.S. Please lookup what % Daily Value is defined to mean in the link you just added, and that should answer your question. – dxiv Jul 07 '17 at 04:58
  • @ComputerMaster It looks from your link/picture that the recommended amount of saturated fat a person should have each day is 20g. Since the total amount of saturated fat in the coconut serving is 30g, which is 150% of 20 (since $30/20 = 1.5$), that means the percent daily value of saturated fat is 150%. Percent daily value just tells you, in this case, how much you are getting from 30g of saturated fat as compared to how much you should get in a day. If you consume 30g of saturated fat, you've consumed 150% of what you should have for that day. – layman Jul 07 '17 at 05:05

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I'm assuming you're looking at the nutritional values.

If it says the coconut has 150% fats this does NOT mean that a coconut is 150% fat, rather the coconut contains 150% of your daily recommended intake of fats.

That is (this is probably not correct), if you are recommended to eat 50 g of fat every day, a coconut may contain 75 g of fat (150% of 50 g). HOWEVER, the coconut itself may weigh 500 g.

Just remember a percentage on a nutrition label always refers to percent of recommended daily values NOT a part of the actual food item. Therefore you can have 50% for fats, 50% for carbohydrates, as well as 50% for proteins, even though they add up to more than 100%.

Frank
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