The nutrition facts label is the box you see on your food products that calculates nutrient information. The label is a useful tool when purchasing food, but it hasn’t had a major update in over twenty years. Now, a couple decades of nutritional research have caused the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to refocus the label in ways that reflect current consumer trends and new nutrition research.
Some of the changes focus on the serving sizes and quantities of sugar Americans are eating these days, while others – like removing the requirement to include vitamin A and vitamin C on the label – were updated to address the fact that we no longer have the same vitamin deficiencies we did 20 years ago. Read more…
