Earlier last year, the Food and Drug Administration set forth some new regulations for the Nutrition Facts Label that you see on all of the packaged foods both made in the U.S and imported to the U.S. These changes were made to update the label due to new nutrition-based findings that allow consumers to better understand what foods make up a healthy diet for them. Below you?ll find all of the changes that were made to the label this past year.
The first, and likely most noticeable change for consumers comes in the form of the calorie count of each serving of a particular food item. The text for this particular value on the label has been made much larger than any other text on the label in addition to now being bolded. This change was made in hopes that consumers would make more health-conscious choices based on their ideal daily caloric intake when considering what food products to purchase. The calorie changes are coupled with an adjustment to the serving sizes of a number of food items that include the label. Previously, the serving sizes were meant to suggest how much of a particular food item a person should be consuming. Now the serving size is a more accurate representation of how a person often consumes a particular food item. Which allows consumers to better understand just how many calories they?re consuming per food item. More micro changes to the label can be seen in the removal of the Calories from Fat section. Previously this was included as research indicate...