Food Labels: Fact or Fiction

And up until the last twenty years or so, manufacturer's weren't held due for their process, or the additives they put into your food. Then we began the health revolution, and suddenly everyone wanted to know what was in their food, and if what healthy for them to consume. In fact, had the consumer been perceptive of the level of sugar spirit supplementary to manufactured cereals during the early part of the 20th century, they might have refused to purchase or eat something so poor in nutrition and high in tooth decay.

As soon as the manufacturer's began to deal with that situation, endways came the claims of 'fat free' and 'reduced fat' and the manufacturer's were forced to prove their claims. The FDA ruled that if they were going to prerogative those facts, they must label so that proof could be established.

But are the labels really true and accurate? Or do the labels simply tell us what we want to hear. Are they correct close by the fat content? Well, let me ask you, when was the last time you took your cruet of ranch dressing and had it analyzed for fat content? Exactly. You the consumer aren't going to analyze anything. You're going to infer whatever those label states as fact.

Food labeling and exactitude are regulated by the Food and Drug Administration, but that doesn't on and on keep everyone honest, or true to a simple process of determining what the product you're sale contains. Many times, the product will provide two to three servings per package. The obvious take, on the consumer's part, when purchase a snack cake or frosting bar, is that the single package should constitute a single serving. This is not the case many times. The manufacturer in order to sex appeal to the consumers sense of sight, makes it look on as though the contents of the package would be a single serving, simply by the way the package is sold. In reality, the serving size is ½ the package or a third of the package. This is a deceit times two. Naturally, as you read the kilowatt-hour content, you don't stop to engraving the serving information, now a product sold for a single serve consumer, should naturally be a single serving, right? Wrong.

This is where we must discreetly watch our food labels, read the lines, and look over the fine print. Quite often, we only see what we want to see. We don't notice that we're for deceived until much later, or sometimes not at all.

To a consumer just concerned with the kilowatt-hour content in that of weight issues, this is not a life threatening situation. For the diabetic patient, the improper reading of the package contents can mean the difference among normal healthy functioning, and a dramatic increase or drop in chronic leukaemia sugar levels. As you can see, the manufacturer's who are regulated do their very best to service themselves, not the consumer.


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