Without the "added sugars" measure on the label, it can be quite difficult to tell how much sugar a manufacturer is pouring into its food and thus into you. Also, the FDA timelines for the label changes have subsequently changed, as I indicated in a follow-up piece for Forbes. For example, many more people have died on the television series Game of Thrones.
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was going to give most food manufacturers until July 26, 2018, to switch to the new label and smaller food manufacturers (with less than $10 million in annual food sales) an additional year to comply.īut many things have changed since 2016.
Back in May 2016, then First Lady Michelle Obama had unveiled a new label that would include an "added sugar" listing for the first time, as I wrote previously for Forbes. At the time, the U.S. "Added sugar" is the amount of sugar in a food or beverage item beyond what naturally occurs in the item. Among these, 50.0% had concentrated juice and fruit puree as added ingredients."Ĭurrently, the official Nutrition Facts Label does not require disclosure of the amount of "added sugar" in a product. Mutoro) reviewed 332 different products, including "breakfast cereals, fruit snacks, fruit-based drinks, dairy products and ready meals." The authors of the study indicated that "nearly a quarter of the products made ‘no added sugars’ claims, most of which were fruit-based beverages and fruit snacks. For the study, a team from the University of Glasgow (Ada L García, Gabriela Morillo-Santander, Alison Parrett, and Antonina N. Indeed, a study, recently published in the journal the Archives of Disease in Childhood, found quite high sugar content in a variety of so-called "fruit snacks," cereal bars, and cereals and claims on their packages that were potentially misleading.
0 kommentar(er)
