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Nutrition: Food Labels
What is the Required Information on All Food Labels? 1. A statement of identity

2. A net weight or contents statement

3. An ingredient statement

4. A statement that gives the name and place of business of the product's manufacturer, packer, and
distributer

5. The Nutrition facts label



Statement of identity - describes the product

- common name of the food



Net Weight or Contents Statement The edible product is listed:

- by weight, volume or numerical count

- in English and metric units



Ingredients Statement Ingredients are listed:

- Below the nutrition facts panel

- by common name in descending order by weight



Which of these ingredient statements lists sugar as its largest ingredient by weight? Ingredients: sugar,
whole grain corn flour, wheat flour, whole oat flour, oat fiber...



Ingredient Statement & Allergen Labeling 9 allergens must be identified:

- eggs

- milk

, - wheat

- soy

- peanuts

- (type of tree) nut

- (type of) fish

- (type of) shellfish

- *Sesame



What are the 2 options for labeling allergens? 1. Include the name of the food source in parenthesis
following the common or usual name of the major food allergen in the list of ingredients in instances
when the name of the food source of the major food allergen does not appear elsewhere in the
ingredient statement for another allergic ingredient



2. Place the work "Contains" followed by the name of the food course from which the major food
allergen is derived, immediately after or adjacent to the list of ingredients, in a type size that is no small
than that used for the ingredient list.



Statement with Name and Place of Business The statement can be of the product's:

- Manufacturer

- pack OR

- distributor



Country or Origin - required by US Customs and Border Protection for imported foods



What are the changes to to nutrition label? 1. Serving size bigger print, more realistic serving size

2. Calories bigger

3. Calories from fat d/c

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