Tips and Tricks of Food Labels

Tips and Tricks of Food LabelsUnit 6

What are Food Labels?Food labels are located on the package of all food products.They provide serving size, nutritional information and dietary percentages of the food your eating.

What is a serving size?Serving size on the food label is the recommend amount your suggested to serve yourself that the nutrition is based on. If you eat twice the serving double the food label information, if you only eat half, divide the information in half.

What nutritional information is on the Label?the food contains certain nutrition elements, which will be listed on the left side of the label. The amount will also be listed on in the middleThe information is based on a serving size.

What is a daily value percentage?This is the percent of the recommend intake the food provides, based on a 2000 calorie diet.The blue highlights are the daily value percentages for 4 cookies, which is one serving.

Explore this Label:What is the serving size?How much sodium is in it?What percent of daily fiber is it?

Explore this label:How many servings are in this container?Is the fiber high or low?What percent of vitamin C is found in this item?

Food MarkersIt is now becoming more common to find food markers on the front of the box in addition to the nutrition label as people become more health aware

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