The FDA's added sugar labeling could prevent or postpone more than 350,000 cases of heart attack or stroke and nearly 600,000 cases of Type 2 diabetes over a 20-year period. | cbcwhitecoat
Smartphones enabled participants to scan barcodes of packaged foods, receive randomly allocated labels on their phone screen, and record their food purchases. A study of close to 1,300 participants found food labels were viewed in roughly 20 per cent of food purchases. Researchers uncovered a significant association between consulting food labels and the healthiness of products purchased. Thus, they concluded that looking at nutrition labels may lead to healthier food purchases..
Mandatory labeling of added sugar means exactly what it says. If, for example, a bottle of ketchup has sugar added, then the label will have to state how much sugar is added. So far, so good. But products such as pure honey and pure maple syrup that contain lots of sugar but no added sugar were exempted from the upcoming changes to the U.S. labelling.It turns out that the FDA has for decades required such foods to have labels listing the total amount of sugar per serving.
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