Nutrition Facts label

OTC drug products. Modeled after the Nutrition Facts label on foods, the label helps consumers compare and select OTC medicines and follow instructions. The label clearly lists active ingredients, uses, warnings, dosage, directions, other information, such as how to store the medicine, and inactive ingredients. 

The number of carbohydrate grams in a food can be found on the Nutrition Facts Label. 

We are proposing that the CFN information be precalculated for the consumer and placed on the Nutrition Facts label in lieu of calories from fat. The FDA has determined that this calculation has little or no meaning to the consumer (Crawford, Acting FDA Commissioner at 16 March 2004 NNR Symposium, Washington, DC). The CFN would assist consumers and the overall implication of their choices in terms of calorie density for nutrient content (i.e., CFN) per serving and not only the contribution of fat and/or sugar stated on the label. The CFN informs one about the cost in calories to... 

Nicotinamide is derived from nicotinic acid that is synthesized by human cells from the essential amino acid tryptophan. Our diet is also a rich source of nicotinamide, so the body has adapted to synthesizing much less than the daily requirements. Many commercial breakfast cereals and spreads are supplemented with nicotinamide that is usually termed niacin or vitamin B3 on their Nutrition Fact labels. 

FIGURE 1 6.3 The Nutrition Facts label. An example of the label required by the law since 1994. Variations are allowed for small packages or foods that do not contain significant amounts of certain nutrients (e.g., vitamins and minerals need not be listed on canned soda). 

Beneath the heavy line on every nutrition facts label are mandatory listings for vitamin A, vitamin G, calcium, and iron. Here also, these required listings are for those vitamins and minerals deemed to he of greatest public health concern. The major deficiency diseases of today are anemia, associated with iron deficiency, and osteoporosis, associated with calcium deficiency. The two vitamins in the mandatory list are those that decrease cancer risk. 

Several minerals are essential in small amounts (micronutrient minerals). Of these, four—iron, copper, zinc, and iodine—are allowed to be listed on Nutrition Facts labels, iron being mandatory and the others optional. Other minerals known to be essential are selenium, manganese, fluorine, chromium, and molybdenum. Still other minerals (10 or more) are known to be essential in other mammals and are present and probably essential in humans. The list of trace minerals and our knowledge of their functions are constantly evolving. 

What are the major categories of information required on a Nutrition Facts label ... 

By using the following Nutrition Facts label, determine what percentage of the Calories in the product come from fat. What percentage of your daily Calorie need (1800 Cal) is provided by a serving Would this product be a good food item for a person on a low- odium diet Justify your answers. 

Use the data from the Nutrition Facts label below to answer the following questions ... 

Nutrition facts label on a box of Famous Amos chocolate chip cookies. 

Nutrition facts label for Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnuts. 

On packaged food, the energy content is listed in the Nutrition Facts label, usually in terms of the number of Calories or kilojoules for one serving. The general composition and energy content for some foods are given in Table 3.8. 

Obtain a food item that has a nutrition facts label. From the information on the label, determine the number of grams of carbohydrate, fat, and protein in one serving. Using the energy values for each food type, calculate the total Calories for one serving. (For most products, the kilocalories for each food type are rounded off to the tens place.)... 

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