Changes to the Nutrition Facts Label: What Does This Mean for You?

If you haven’t already noticed, you will likely start to see some significant changes to how your food is packaged and sold.

Rolling out Obama-era policies, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is requiring food makers to implement a new Nutrition Facts label, which will include the following information and updates [1]:

• Increasing the type size for “Calories”, “servings per container”, and the “Serving Size”
• Bolding the numbers of calories and serving size to better highlight this information
• “Added Sugars” in grams and as a percent of Daily Value will be included on the label
• Manufacturers must declare the actual amount, in addition to the percent of Daily Value, of Vitamin D, Calcium, Iron, and Potassium

The list of nutrients that are required or permitted to be declared is being updated

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