It is good to know the proper serving sizes of the foods you eat in order to maintain a healthy diet. Visual representations allow us to measure what we are eating much faster and easier.

Food Item	Sample Item Size
1 piece of fruit	a baseball
1 medium potato	a computer mouse
½ cup of chopped vegetable or canned fruit	½ a baseball
½ cup of rice	a tennis ball
1 cup of cooked pasta (2 servings)	the inside of a standard coffee mug
½ a standard bagel	a hockey puck
3 oz. of meat	a cassette tape, or a deck of cards
1½ oz. of natural cheese 2 oz. of process cheese	3 standard size dominos 3.5" floppy disk
1 oz. of nuts	a film canister
1 oz. of bread	approximately 1 CD case
2 tablespoons of peanut butter	a golf ball

Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.