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The key to stocking
nutritious foods in your kitchen is by knowing and understanding what’s in the
foods you buy. Trying to decipher food labels is not easy so, we don’t know
exactly what we are getting when we buy low-fat foods, juices, breads, or
multigrain snacks.
Terms like “natural”,
“fresh”, and “no additives” can be confusing, they all seem to mean the same
thing. The secret behind reading food labels is knowing what you should look
for.
The nutrition facts panel
and the ingredients listing is the most reliable and important information on
the label.
Calories
It’s what counts for weight
control. Look for the number of calories per serving on the label. It is
usually written in bolder or larger type to make calorie information easy to
find.
Serving
size and number of servings per container
There are products that most
of us would consider a single-serve container, but manufacturers would label it
as “two servings”. This would cause extreme confusion and worry that we might
be getting twice the calories when in fact we’re not. This information is very
critical to understanding everything else that’s written on the label... Read more from:
