The U.S Drug and Food Administration has just released an announcement that updates are being made to the nutrition facts labels on packaged food to provide the information to the consumer that they need to make healthier choices. There are a number of improved changes that will be made and food companies are required to use them by July of 2018. With these changes, the labels will hopefully be easier to read and understand which, in turn, will help the U.S make healthier choices.
Some changes that will be made:
- Highlight calories and servings based on what people actually eat
- Label will now include grams and percent daily value (%DV) for added sugars
- This new addition helps support the new dietary guidelines for 2015-2020
- Dual columns added to indicate "per serving" and "per package"
- Consumers can easily understand how many calories and nutrients they are consuming by entire an entire package of of food in one sitting
- Packages between one and two servings, such as a 20 oz. bottle of soda will be required to be labeled as 1 serving
- The actual gram amount in addition to %DV will be listed for both Vitamin D and Potassium
- These are 2 nutrients that many people do not get enough of so the actual amount is a necessity to be placed on the new nutrition labels
- Calories from fat will be removed from all labels
- The type of fat is a more important piece of information
- Total fat, Saturated Fat and Trans. Fat are all still required
- An abbreviated footnote will be added to better explain the %DV
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