1 / 10

Decoding Food Labels: Know Your Nutrition

Discover what food labels reveal about ingredients, health claims, and additives. Learn how to interpret open dates and understand enriched and fortified products. Find out the main ingredient in a granola bar and the health claim being made.

muncel
Télécharger la présentation

Decoding Food Labels: Know Your Nutrition

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Page 274-277 - FOOD LABELS • All foods must have labels stating the following information: - Nutritional Facts Panel - Full ingredient listing (in descending order by weight) - Requirements for health claims

  2. See page 276

  3. What is the main ingredient in the granola bar? What Health claim is being made? What is the qualifying statement?

  4. FOOD ADDITIVES • SUBSTANCES ADDED TO FOOD TO PRODUCE A DESIRED EFFECT • Add nutrients • Lengthen shelf life • Flavor or color • Maintain texture

  5. ENRICHED • Replacing nutrients lost during processing (usually vitamins) • Example…bread/pasta

  6. FORTIFIED Oranges do not naturally contain calcium! • Nutrients added to food product • Example…calcium fortified orange juice

  7. Organic Food Labels USDA Organic – produced without the use of chemicals such as synthetic fertilizers or pesticides. Foods also cannot contain any genetically modified ingredients (GMO – genetically modified organisms)

  8. Open Dating • Open dates – help consumer determine how long food will remain fresh • Sell by date – last day a store should sell the product. • Use by/expiration date – last day a product’s quality can be guaranteed. Most foods are still safe for a short time

  9. Open Date • Freshness date – on items with a short shelf life • (ex. Baked goods) Show the last date a product is considered fresh • Pack Dates – show the date a food was processed/packaged. This date does not give consumer an indication of the product’s freshness

  10. Photo Bibliography factslabel.gif - label www.scientificpsychic.com - ingredient list www.kategilbert.com - cheerios www.rbcorner.com – Twinkie www.ftd.de – green ketchup www.flickr.com - bread web.health.gov - how to read label www.jamescronen.com -pasta temagami.carleton.ca -orange juice

More Related