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Healthy Eating: Understanding the Nutrition Facts Label
FCS8883, a 2-page illustrated fact sheet by Karla P. Shelnutt, explains the nutrition facts label — why it is needed and how to read it. Published by the UF Department of Family Youth and Community Sciences, October 2009.
Karla P. Shelnutt
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Healthy Eating: Understanding the Nutrition Facts Label
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requires that most food packages have the Nutrition Facts label. This label contains information about nutrients in the food to help people make healthier food choices. Older adults can use the label to choose
Linda Bobroff, Karla P. Shelnutt
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Reading nutrition facts labels is a typical activity promoted in obesity prevention educational programs. By playing the MestreChef Nutritional, participants can immerse in the context of a food TV show game to have the first contact with reading nutrition facts labels for a learning purpose.
Pamella Mayumi Dias Inamori+1 more
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Can the updated nutrition facts label decrease sugar-sweetened beverage consumption?
Sugar-sweetened beverages are the primary source of added sugar consumption in the U.S, and the Food and Drug Administration recently updated the Nutrition Facts Label to communicate the amount of added sugars in manufactured food. The changes to the Nutrition Facts Label (NFL) is concurrent with some cities implementing policies that place an excise ...
Zachary T. Neuhofer+5 more
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Diabetes diagnosis and nutrition facts label use among US adults, 2005-2010. [PDF]
An R.
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Proposed Changes to the Nutrition Facts Label and the Chronic Kidney Disease Patient [PDF]
proposed label to help consumers differentiate between naturally occurring sugar and what portion of sugar is being added to the product. The total carbohydrate designation on the label has been replaced by ‘‘total carbs,’’ which includes the added sugar declaration.
Pamela S. Kent
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Added sugar in the nutrition facts label: Consumer needs and scientific uncertainty [PDF]
Theodore K. Kyle, Diana M. Thomas
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Nutrition facts labels: who is actually reading them and does it help in meeting intake recommendations for nutrients of public health concern? [PDF]
Background Fiber, potassium and calcium are nutrients of public health concern and their intakes in the United States are alarmingly low. The usage of nutrition facts labels has been reported to increase the odds for dietary reference intake of fiber in ...
Maximilian Andreas Storz
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Background: The increasing number of packaged food products requires consumers to be able to read the nutrition foods label on the packaging label. Reading packaged food labels is one of the general messages of balanced nutrition that helps consumers ...
Januario Sebastiano Sega+2 more
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Labeling Nutrition-Sensitive Food Chains: A Consumer Preference Analysis of Milk Products [PDF]
While nutrition-sensitive value-chain approaches are strongly advocated, studies on consumer preferences for such interventions are lacking. This study aims to fill this gap by examining a nutrition-sensitive chain labeling scheme, using the Ugandan ...
Joshua Wesana+7 more
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