nutrition labels: pointless, useless, or misleading?

wrote:
Nutrition labels in the U.S. are to me quite worthless for indicating
the nutrition content of foods.
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How much information do you think they can fit on a can or box?
You want more info? Do some work.....

http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/search/

There are also toll free numbers on almost every packaged/canned food where
you can call and request additional nutritional info.
--
Jeri
"Change is inevitable, except from vending machines."

On Nov 25, 3:58 pm, Jo Anne Slaven wrote:
I don't know how many centuries ago you visited Canada, but
nutritional and ingredients regulations for packaged foods are quite
strict these days.

Actually, upon further research, it wasnt mandatory in Canada for most
large prepackaged food companies to have a nutrional label until Dec
2005 and for smaller companies it doesnt come into effect until Dec
2007. So yeah I am in the right century. ;-)
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fn-an/label-e...n/index_e.html
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fn-an/label-e...l_flash_e.html
Maybe its because Canada has such a wealth of imported goods, which may
not have nurtritional labelling, it just struck me that alot of what I
picked up didnt have the usual nutrition panel on it (and I was in
SaveOns and or Safeway about a year ago).
I was also surprised that they dont carry as much lowfat stuff,
especially dairy products, like we have here in the US. Just my
observation, and of course it may vary in your town (I was in Maple
Ridge outside of Vancouver BC).



joanne (the other one) ;-)

Jeri wrote:
You want more info? Do some work.....

http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/search/

"Change is inevitable, except from vending machines."

A neat resource! It doesn't list everything, but for many foods it
provides much more information than the food labels.

Smart Start label:
3g total fat, 0.5g saturated fat, 0g trans fat

USDA database:
3.2g total fat, 0.6g saturated fat, 0.1g trans fat, 1.1g
monounsaturated fat, 1.4g polyunsaturated fat.

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