Food Labeling: The Importance Of Food Labeling

Everyone wants to be healthy, but there’s also people that don’t care about their health and suffer of obesity or some kind of sickness like cholesterol, cancer etc. According to L.C. Savage and R. K. Johnson (2006) “Obesity accounts for approximately 400 000 deaths annually in the USA” .Eating healthy means choosing lots of different foods throughout the day to get all the nutrients people need, and thank goodness food labeling exist and give the people all the information they need. “People that use food labels often have a higher dietary quality, based on lower intakes of fat, and higher intakes of fruit and vegetables, when compared with those who do not use food labels according to studies.” (Kreuter 1997; Kristal et al. 1998; Neuhouser et al. 1999; Perez-Escamilla & Haldeman 2002; Huang 2004). To begin food labeling is information on the packages that tells you about the nutrients the food have like the calories, fat or other nutrients. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is the Government agency that provides federal oversight of the current food labelling system it governs the labeling of many foods. . R. K. Johnson (2006) gives a little bit of

One of the importance is that can help people prevent some sickness. Many people in the United States suffer from food allergies that, at least at present, cannot be cured and food labeling can help these consumers identify and avoid foods to which they are allergic and this now is a requirement Margaret Rosso Grossman says that “Packaged food labeled after 1 January 2006 must comply with allergen labeling requirements.” But also have to include packaged food requires nutrition information in a format specified in detail in the regulation. Also can help to those people who is sick of diabetes, people can get information on sugar and carbohydrate contents from the food label or also people on low-fat diets can tell how much of nutrients are in a some