Should Food Labels Be Changed?

Food labels play an important role in a balanced diet. Too often people buy foods that may seem nutritious when the label on the food actually reveals otherwise. Understanding what each part of the food label means is essential in eating a well-balanced diet and managing weight.

If you were to go to a restaurant, you would want to know what the nutritional values of the food were, would you not? The labels you see on bags of potato chips or a drink are called nutritional labels (also known as food labels), which show you how much calories, proteins, fats, or a lot more that the item has. In fact, the government made it illegal to make products to sell at stores without the nutritional label. Did you know that restaurants are not required by law to have a label on any of their products? The government needs to make a law to make restaurants put the nutritional values on their foods.

What i mean by this is people with healthy habits look for these labelings to be on their menus because it helps the se how much calories or fats are in a certain food and it's not just people with healthy habits that do this it is everybody a lot of people look for labeling on their menus of their foods. If you read paragraph three of food labeling if states “this trend poses increased risks for all of us, not just in terms of calories, but in terms of unhealthful ingredients such as fat and sodium. Armed With relevant information, consumers can address this risk and be better for

According to the text in “Label the Meals”, when labels are available, research shows that about one-quarter of customers use it to limit what they decide to eat. This helps customers be more healthy and that is our purpose with labels. These customers that limit what they decide to eat usually end up eating 400 less calories than to when there are no labels. This is needed because over the past 30 years, Americans have nearly doubled the calories they recieve away from home. This is a risk for all of us and can promote sodium and fat consumption.

Modern processed foods are packaged in ways that are designed to sell. With many people seeking healthy and nutritious food options, it makes sense that companies would want to portray their products as such. In the article “Front-of-Package Food Labels”, Marion Nestle and David S. Ludwig discuss why vague and unproven front-of-package labels should not be allowed on processed food packages.

Recently the federal government passed a law that, “requires restaurant chains with 20 or more outlets to disclose calorie counts on their food items and supply information on how many calories a healthy person should eat in a day” (Rosenbloom). By doing this it is helping to expose the nutritional information allowing the American people to be aware of what they are eating; if it is healthy or unhealthy. Many wonder if people make good decisions when it comes to which food choices they consume. People who support this new federal law believe that, “even if menu labeling does not inspire consumers to eat better, they should be told what they are putting in their mouths” (Rosenbloom). Even though the menu items are labeled it does not matter to those people that overlook it, because those people consume it

The public demanded that the FDA re-work their food label, making it easier to read and comprehend. In 2014, Alexandra Sifferlin, from Time Magazine, published an article referring to how the FDA could improve and redesign their food label, stating that the labels could add “Realistic serving sizes, bolder calories, sugar breakdown, understandable measurements, and front of package placement.” Once this article got into the hand of the public, many people began urging the Food and Drug Administration to change their label. Two years later in 2016, the FDA had designed a new formatting for their food labels, adding “Serving size in a larger bolder type, updated serving sizes, calories in a larger type, updated daily values, a new line for added sugars, actual amounts as well as % daily value of nutrients” (Coming to a shelf near you: The new Nutrition Facts labels). However, the FDA did not put the label on the front of the packaging. This is because if the food label is on the back of packaging, it gave corporations the room to advertise their product on the front of the packaging. Also, many people would not be enticed to buy a product if the first thing they see is a chart. With these improvements, it is obvious that the FDA is considerate of the public, however some people still have an

Labeling food is a good thing. Many people in the world have started working out and watching what they eat. Labeling food can help people choose the food that they want and how to balance it. If food was labeled many people could be in shape and not over weight. Many people that keep a good nutrition because of the labels are slim and in a great physical form. Labeling has proven to decrease the percent of people that are over weight. The author of ,"Label the Meals," stated that ever since it was a law to label food that people have been more physical and productive.

Labeling the menu items at a restaurant could drive away customers who are conscious about how many calories they eat, or how much fat is in an item. This both drives down business and lowers economic growth because the businesses are losing customers instead of gaining them. if one particular item is high in calories on a businesses menu then it could make many people who want to eat "Healthier" go to another restaurant to eat, the restaurant that is not getting as much customers as before would have a drop in profit as well as a drop in overall growth of the restaurant over time. this is not good for places with many restaurants that have high calorie items on the menu because it would drive down many businesses at a time and lower the economic growth of the entire area. Having labels on a menu means bad business overall for restaurants or other places with high calorie food and should therefore not be included, this would help economic and business growth in the

While I would enjoy stricter laws pertaining to our food supply, just having more of them will not make our food safer; it will only make it costlier. I am retired with a fixed income and I hate seeing the food prices go up. If food prices go up, my quality of life will go down because of the lifestyle changes I will be forced to make. In addition to being more costly, there is no guarantee that state to state laws will even complete the objective of having more transparent labeling. We need to do everything possible to keep costs down while maintaining high levels of quality and the Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act of 2015 can accomplish

Should reading the food labels be necessary before buying and consuming? During this paper, there will be some differences on two authors and their point of view on labeling.The first paragraph explains why Gary Hirshberg agrees that there needs to be labels on food and the importance of doing it. The second paragraph will state why John Davis is against it, and explains labeling is a bad for the people and for the economy.

This memo will summarize the rule “Food Labeling: Revision of the Nutrition and Supplement Facts Labels”, which was proposed by the Food and Drug Administration. The memo will be broken down into three different paragraphs. The first major point of the memo will be about main changes of the rule and why the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is modifying it. The second point will be about organizations and industries that are affected by this rule. The third point will be a discussion about affected companies/industries and what will they have to do should this rule go into effect. Such allocation of the information will help to better understand the main points of the rule and how it affects different industries and companies.

Regarding the possibility of being a short-sighted policy, the move is useless as it is only symbolic. There have been many discussions whether or not unhealthy fast foods carry labels warning of their calorie content. McDonald’s, one of the world’s largest fast food restaurants, has implemented menu labelling to inform customers about menu items since 2012 in the United States, showing the amount of calories they put in their foods (Strom, 2012).

The Labeling and Education Act of 1990 was the last major government action involving nutrition labeling, which did not take effect until 1994. This action required that serving size and nutrition labeling to be clearly displayed on packaged foods that were being sold at the grocery stores. Restaurant and other ready-to-eat food were exempted from this new law. But in 2014, twenty years after this action went into effect; the FDA released a proposed rule to renew the nutrition-facts label, which required packaged foods to include the amount of sugar, and to increase the size of the calorie label font, making it easier for consumers to read the labels.

In Pollans article he shows us how food labeling is n important aspect of our lives today because its one of the only things we have to distinguish what is truly in our food. The labels are now required so we can know what ingredients are in our food and how many calories are in the food. Pollans also shows us on how food is directly affected to our health. Kessler tells us how eating can cause extreme obesity and in our society. The reason we have major obesity in our society is because all of the food we eat now causes some sort of stimuli in our brain that makes us want to eat more and more. Every time we smell something that smells good we automatically want to eat it and for some reason it happens really often and that's because most food