FDA’s New Nutrition Labels Reflect Actual Servings, Not What Americans Pretend They’re Eating
Your days of glancing at a nutrition label and pretending you'll only eat the recommended twelve chips are numbered. On Thursday, the Food and Drug Administration will announce the biggest changes to nutrition labels on food packages since they became mandatory in the early 1990s. The proposed redesign, which won't be finalized for months, looks similar to the current labels, but calories are in a much bigger font, serving sizes will be more realistic, and most controversially, added sugars must be listed. "I really like them. I’m kind of stunned actually," Marion Nestle, a professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University told the New York Times, adding, "My prediction is that this will be wildly controversial."
