Do You Read Nutrition Facts on Food Item Labels?

Lon · Post by **Lon** » Wed Dec 16, 2009 8:05 pm

If you do. What are the most important items that are of interest to you? Total Fat? Total Carb? Sodium? Do you feel it's important information?

K.Snyder · Post by **K.Snyder** » Wed Dec 16, 2009 8:22 pm

Lon;1273586 wrote: If you do. What are the most important items that are of interest to you? Total Fat? Total Carb? Sodium? Do you feel it's important information?

"Nutritional facts" labeled on the side of any packaged food is to sell the product...Some can argue that business owners wish to see people eat healthy:yh_eyerol...You'll forgive me for being cynical when pondering that thought...

The Fair Packaging and Labeling Act is quite frankly very important

Lon · Post by **Lon** » Wed Dec 16, 2009 8:45 pm

K.Snyder;1273587 wrote: "Nutritional facts" labeled on the side of any packaged food is to sell the product...Some can argue that business owners wish to see people eat healthy:yh_eyerol...You'll forgive me for being cynical when pondering that thought...

The Fair Packaging and Labeling Act is quite frankly very important

Sell the product???? If more people bothered to read the labels and understood what they are reading, they would never buy certain food items.

High cholesterol---high fat-------

flopstock · Post by **flopstock** » Wed Dec 16, 2009 9:59 pm

I do now.

Used to be fat. Now it's fat and carb. Need to start watching vitamins too, I suppose.

mrsK · Post by **mrsK** » Wed Dec 16, 2009 10:31 pm

I have started & it takes forever to shop

Once I get to know all the correct amounts & brands it will be faster.

I hope:-6

shelbell · Post by **shelbell** » Wed Dec 16, 2009 10:34 pm

Especially the types of fats and cholesterol...i try to watch the sugars and carbs, but they just taste so good. :-6

Richard Bell · Post by **Richard Bell** » Wed Dec 16, 2009 11:44 pm

I look for trans fats, fat content, and sodium.

Hard to believe it wasn't that long ago when such information wasn't provided.

Ahso! · Post by **Ahso!** » Wed Dec 16, 2009 11:49 pm

Sugar, fructose, sucrose, carbs, trans fats, sodium and anything I can't pronounce.

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 12:27 am

Yes, every time I buy packaged food - which is not that often as I usually buy fresh and cook my own.

Not only the nutritional information for fat and salt levels etc but also the ingredients list for additives and the "what the hell did they put *that* in there for?" ingredients.

abbey · Post by **abbey** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 1:54 am

Calories and fat.

fuzzywuzzy · Post by **fuzzywuzzy** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 2:00 am

Well considering tha tthey are wanting to put 'global warning footprint information' on packaged foods is their any wonder I don't buy packaged foods?............

gmc · Post by **gmc** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 2:53 am

Lon;1273586 wrote: If you do. What are the most important items that are of interest to you? Total Fat? Total Carb? Sodium? Do you feel it's important information?

yes-fat and salt content and what additives are in it.

Big stushie between the US and EU over labelling. European consumers boycotted foods containing GM foods and demanded the right to know if it was in their food so the eu banned it's import-which GW decided was just us being anti-american. There's also issues over the us by the US of hormones, banned in the eu, in their cattle. Personally I want to know where the meat is from. Maybe it's being a much smaller overcrowded country but we've seen the effects of farming methods on our countryside much more quickly than the US. It's when the stuff get in to the water courses people start to worry.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 072830.htm

maybe you all should as well

Odie · Post by **Odie** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 10:42 am

calories, fat, carbs.

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 4:46 pm

Thanks for asking Lon. I do sometimes read the labels, mainly Im looking for whats not in there like lots of ingredients that dont sound like food.

Nomad

K.Snyder · Post by **K.Snyder** » Sun Dec 20, 2009 1:47 pm

Lon;1273588 wrote: Sell the product???? If more people bothered to read the labels and understood what they are reading, they would never buy certain food items.

High cholesterol---high fat-------

Yes, but the thread was speaking specifically toward "Nutrition Facts"...

From which I'd referencedK.Snyder;1273587 wrote: The Fair Packaging and Labeling Act is quite frankly very important

Two completely different beginning points

The rest is people that could care less about "High cholesterol---high fat-------"

K.Snyder · Post by **K.Snyder** » Sun Dec 20, 2009 1:49 pm

I eat whatever I wish and work it off on the "Total Gym"!

Thanks to a very special friend I was able to work out sooner rather than later!...

:yh_wink

Lon · Post by **Lon** » Sun Dec 20, 2009 2:48 pm

K.Snyder;1274518 wrote: Yes, but the thread was speaking specifically toward "Nutrition Facts"...

From which I'd referenced

Two completely different beginning points

The rest is people that could care less about "High cholesterol---high fat-------"

Hmmm----if you check on any package of American Foods you will see on the label "Nutrition Facts"---it specifically states---fat content--salt--etc. etc.

K.Snyder · Post by **K.Snyder** » Sun Dec 20, 2009 9:02 pm

Lon;1274552 wrote: Hmmm----if you check on any package of American Foods you will see on the label "Nutrition Facts"---it specifically states---fat content--salt--etc. etc.

Sure, when a food item happens to be more healthy than most other food items the "Nutrition Facts" becomes an advertisement. When a food item is unhealthy to consume then "Nutrition Facts" becomes the result ofK.Snyder;1273587 wrote: The Fair Packaging and Labeling Actand...K.Snyder;1273587 wrote: ...is quite frankly very important