Food manufacturers have developed their own guidelines and are now debuting their front label "Nutrition Keys" to help consumers make informed decisions. The new labels, called nutrition keys, were developed by Food Marketing Institute (FMI) and the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) and will be put into practice later this year. Appearing on the front of packages, these keys will display calories, saturated fat, sodium and sugars. Some manufacturers will take it one step further and display those ingredients which might be appealing to consumers, such as fiber, vitamins, or protein. The full nutrition labeling will still appear on the back or side of packaging.
You've probably heard some of the rules of the road when it comes to shopping healthfully at the grocery store: Don't go shopping hungry because you're likely to buy more than you need. Shop the perimeter of the store, where you'll find the fresh stuff - breads, meats, vegetables and fruits. But perhaps the rule that is most perplexing is the one that asks shoppers to read the nutrition facts labels on products before buying them.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing that a proposed collection of information has been submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and clearance under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
The Washington Post New Year's revelers who plan to belly up to the bar but also resolve to drop 10 pounds in 2011 face a hurdle: calories, carbohydrates and other nutritional facts are nowhere to be found on a bottle of booze.
If nutrition labels are already on grocery-store foods, do you really need more stickers telling you how healthy a product is? More and more supermarkets think so and are teaming up with big health organizations (including Harvard Medical School, the Joslin Diabetes Center and let's not forget the Cleveland Clinic) to devise stickers, signs or shelf tags that help you decide whether to put something in your cart.
The nutrition facts label tells you what's in your favorite foods. Here's how to decode information about fats, carbs, protein and sugars. If you lose your train of thought somewhere between "servings per container" and "total carbohydrate," Sarah Krieger, a spokeswoman for the American Dietetic Association, is here to help understand some of the key ingredients.
While food makers are getting more creative about the health claims they make on the front of their products - olive oil that cures cancer and green tea that cures Alzheimer's disease - a new survey finds that American shoppers are getting savvier about reading the old-school nutrition information printed on the back of food packages. For the first time, more than half of shoppers (54 percent) told interviewers for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's 2008 Health and Diet Survey that they "often" read the nutrition label when they consider buying a product. Two-thirds said they look for information about calories, fat, salt and vitamins. But only 46 percent of the 2,584 adults surveyed said they used the nutrition label to assess the calorie content of packaged foods, and 34 percent ...
Those "Nutrition Facts" on the back labels of food products can deliver plenty of useful information -- but they also can require some algebra calculations to know the full story. Take SPAM, for instance -- no, not the dozens of unwanted e- mails that clog your inbox every day, but the meat product that comes in the familiar blue can.
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