Nutrition Label IQ Test

        


I found this interesting quiz:
Nutrition Fact Label IQ

How do things get labelled in the US? We have this system of colours and percentages. Almost all packaged foods are marked with fat, salt, calories and sugars. Red means bad, orange means OK and green means good. There is a figure for the % of recommended daily intake for that particular serving. They have to use one of the labels below. Most use one which shows the % RDA - probably the most helpoful ones.



Kate
 

Let me tell you... NOT as good as you guys have it there! I lived in London for two months... and LOOOOOOOOVED the way you label things. God I would give anything to move back to the UK....  

Ours look like:



Very exciting....

The thing that bothers me the most about the nutritional info is the serving size.

Cereal, for instance.  A serving of one could have 100 calories and pretty decent nutritional info, which sounds pretty good, then you realize they consider a serving 1/2 c.  Which is OK for us banders, but what NORMAL person is gonna eat only 1/2 c.  Another shows 110 calories per serving, and a serving is 1 c.  Can we say standardize!

Another pet peeve is the small crystal light packets.  The box says 5 calories per serving.  Read on.  A serving is only half a packet.  Not that big a deal, but why don't they just package it in one serving packets.

I agree on the crystal light.  First off how do you know when you have only put in half.  Second what do you do with the other half to keep it w/o spilling it in your purse!!!!!  In fact thanks for reminding me I've been meaning to email them and complain.

have thought about the crystal light thing myself several times, there are other things like that even some of the flavoring things for water...it says add half to 16oz water....ok and what do i do with the rest of the envelope, since I am most likely not home when I am using them..and TRUST me its never a good idea to leave anything open in my classroom. :)  (Love them though)

I just did an article for a website that I am a  forum  co-host on .. the article was about nutritional values and how to read them.  I did it according to the US values.  Interesting to see how you all do your's in other places.  Gosh that would be so nice.  Maybe the US needs to get in the grove with them. 

Here is my article and you do not have to be a member to read it.  :)  

There is a lot of good info there, but our label is not near as nice. 

http://www.recipezaar.com/bb/viewtopic.zsp?t=294628

Jacqueline