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What does a food label tell us?
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Do you ever read food labels?
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Sugar, corn syrup, wheat flour, molasses,
caramel color, licorice extract, corn starch,
salt, artificial colors (including yellow #6),
resinous glaze, anise oil, canuba wax,
artificial flavors
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Corn syrup solids, partially hydrogenated
vegetable oil, (may contain one or more of
the following oils: coconut, cottonseed, palm,
palm kernel, safflower, or soybean), sodium
caseinate, mono-and dipotassium phosphate,
artificial flavor, and annato color
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Tuna, water, sufficient for processing,
vegetable oil, dicalcium phosphate, sodium
triphosphate, tricalcium phosphate, sodium
chloride, vitamins A, B1, B6, E, and D3
supplements, zinc sulfate, menadione sodium
bisulfide, manganous sulfate, sodium nitrite,
folic acid
What
would you
pick?
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Lets us know what ingredients and nutrients are
present in a food and how much of that food
counts as a serving
Mandated by the Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) in order to protect consumers
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Contain this information in this order:
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Total Calories
Calories from fat
Total fat
Saturated fat
Cholesterol
Sodium
Total Carbohydrates
Dietary fiber
Sugars
Protein
Vitamin A
Vitamin C
Calcium
Iron
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in actual Amount (example: milligrams, grams)
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Listed by “Percent Daily Value”
• a guide to the nutrients in one serving of food
• based on a 2,000-calorie diet for healthy adults
• For example, if the label lists 15 percent for calcium, it
means that one serving provides 15 percent of the calcium
you need each day.
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1.) How do nutrition labels list ingredients?
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2.) What is “percent daily values”?