Those nutrition facts you see on food parcels are receiving a new look The Associated Press reported Friday.
"There's a feeling that nutrition labels haven't been as effective as they should be," Michael Jacobson from the Center for Science in the Public Interest told the AP. "When you look at the label, there are roughly two dozen numbers of substances that people aren't intuitively familiar with," Jacobson told The AP.
There is no timetable for the label's revamping although the White House has received protocol for the change the AP reported. The FDA last adjusted the label's trans fat information in 2006.
These include an emphasis on calories, and taking off the calories from fat category the AP reported.
Trends have seen health providers promote calories, and shoo consumers from saturated and trans fats instead of mainly fat contents the AP reported.
"The food environment has changed and our dietary guidance has changed," Michael Taylor, deputy commissioner of foods at the FDA told the AP. "It's important to keep this updated so what is iconic doesn't become a relic," Taylor told the AP. Taylor was involved with the FDA at the label's unveiling in the 1990s the AP reported. "(20 years ago) there was a big focus on fat, and fat undifferentiated," Taylor told the AP.
Health professionals have also inferred listing serving sizes that are proportionally accurate, including how much whole wheat is in a product, and putting labels on the front of products for easier viewing the AP reported.
"There's a lot of information there, it's messy," Tracy Fox, a nutrition consultant located in Washington told The AP. "There may be a way to call out certain things and put them in context."
Forty two percent of employed adults utilized the chart all of the time or the majority the AP reported.
