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“For decades, the Nutrition Facts label has been an essential tool to educate people across the country about the nutritional content of their food and drinks, but high rates of diet-related ...
The Nutrition Facts label found on packaged foods contains crucial information about a food’s nutritional value and can help you make the right dietary choices. In 2021, in response to new ...
The Nutrition Facts label, that black and white information box found on nearly every packaged food product in the U.S. since 1994, has recently become an icon for consumer transparency.
The history of the Nutrition Facts label shows us how we got to this somewhat confusing, but helpful, set of facts printed on our food stuffs.
Pay attention to the ingredients and nutrition labels of the foods you and your family eat.
The nutrition facts label is a regulated label on the back of food packages and is your most reliable source of information. The first thing to note on this label is the ingredients.
John Kopp/PhillyVoice Nutrition Facts labels aim to help consumers learn the nutritional properties of a food. In practice, this label has done much more than simply inform shoppers, encoding a ...
Most food products have a Nutrition Facts label. A good rule of thumb for utilizing this label is the 5/20 rule. Under this rule, less healthy nutrients should be kept at 5% DV or less.
The FDA wants food and beverage manufacturers to display nutrition labels on the front of most of their packages in an effort to help Americans make healthier choices.
The Food and Drug Administration proposed Tuesday to put a smaller nutrition label highlighting saturated fat, sodium and added sugar on the front of food packaging.