FDA Approves new label highlighting added sugar & calories

2»

Replies

  • Michael190lbs
    Michael190lbs Posts: 1,510 Member
    I'm just happy the calories are larger as my eyes get more and more out of wack with age. The Macros you have to have a pretty bad diet to not hit minimum amounts most days and my guess is if you don't you more than likely don't care.

    my 2 cents..
  • stealthq
    stealthq Posts: 4,298 Member
    edited October 2016
    The_Enginerd wrote: »
    RhapsodyWinters wrote: »
    I was about to make a post about this, unsure if people even knew the changes were coming. Good thing I searched to see if a thread already existed. Companies have until July 26, 2018 to comply. Foods imported into the US will also have to comply to the changes.

    Also, I'm not seeing anyone pointing out the changes to serving sizes as well.

    A 12oz can of soda will count as 1 serving. An 8 oz glass bottle of soda will be 1 serving. A 24oz bottle of soda will also be 1 serving.

    I like this. They're also changing things like serving sizes on ice cream. I hope they make the changes to popcorn as well. I just had some that said a serving size was 2 Tbsp unpopped and I was like ".........uh.....do you expect me to pop 2 Tbsp separately from the package? Because that would be suicide". I just had to guestimate how many calories I used popped. It states in here that some serving sizes will increase, and others will decrease. By law, it has to be based off of what people typically eat. Not some magic number nutritionists provide.

    ucm501517.jpg

    I'm not a huge fan of the serving size changes given how skewed our views of serving sizes are. Maybe it should be based on what serving size would typical fit within a well balanced diet of the assumed 2000 calorie/day diet.

    Bingo.

    There are people out there that follow the serving sizes on the package as if it's an instruction as opposed to a fairly random value. Just what most people need is an instruction or validation that has them eating more.

    Besides, who are they fooling that 'most' people eat 1/3 of a pint of ice cream as a serving? I usually hear about eating a half or a whole in real life. On here, there's a decent number that stick to 1/4, but I know we're a rarity in the general population.
  • Briantime
    Briantime Posts: 175 Member
    I'm all for labeling and education. It's when they start banning or taxing things that I really get annoyed...
  • extra_medium
    extra_medium Posts: 1,525 Member
    edited October 2016
    Briantime wrote: »
    I'm all for labeling and education. It's when they start banning or taxing things that I really get annoyed...

    I just feel like anyone who cared before would have read the label anyways. If someone didn't care to begin with, this won't make them suddenly be concerned about calories. I wish they'd focus more on ridiculous serving sizes.. like one serving being 1/2 of cookie that comes in a package that can't be resealed.
  • RhapsodyWinters
    RhapsodyWinters Posts: 128 Member
    The_Enginerd wrote: »

    I'm not a huge fan of the serving size changes given how skewed our views of serving sizes are. Maybe it should be based on what serving size would typical fit within a well balanced diet of the assumed 2000 calorie/day diet.

    I personally wouldn't mind that either. However, I have a pet peeve seeing small self-portioned packages saying their portion size is part of the container when obviously people eat the entire container. (Like, say you want to bring one of those small cups of macaroni and cheese that you just pop into the microwave. Some have a serving size as 3/4 the container. I highly doubt people stop at 3/4 and go "Well I can't eat another bite"

Categories