It’s been two weeks since your New Year’s Resolution to get serious about your diet. And yesterday, you ate HALF A SLEEVE of Oreos for lunch. But you have an excuse, Oreos HID the nutrition info on the BACK of the packaging. (???)
The FDA is now proposing that nutrition info be placed on the FRONT of packaged foods. Not the WHOLE nutrition info box with all the ingredients and chemicals you can’t pronounce.
This would be a smaller box, with a snapshot of just THREE things: Saturated fat, sodium, and added sugars. There will also be a rating for each: Classifying them as “low,” “medium,” or “high.”
The idea is that this will help consumers make “quicker and more accurate assessments” of products, possibly without even having to pick them up.
This is just a proposal for now, and even if it does get approved later this year, food companies wouldn’t be expected to comply until three or four YEARS after the new policy is adopted.
(CNN)
