For all those who are health conscious and want to know what are the effects of the food products they are consuming on daily basis. How much calories they gain, which ingredient was helpful in loosing that extra kilos and what were the allergic ones-all will be known to you on the ‘nutritional facts’ labels on your packaged food. Aiming at informing the consumers in a better way, the Food and … [Read more...]
FDA mulls changes in Nutrition Facts labels to better inform consumers
In a bid to better inform the consumers, the federal agency Food and Drug Administration is mulling over bringing changes to the labels on packaged foods depicting the “Nutrition Facts”. The food labels were introduced in the United States in 1993. According to the FDA, no changes have been made in the nutritional facts since its introduction and therefore there is a huge need to update the … [Read more...]