This is a guest blog post by Richard Perlmutter, MS Last year Kozy Shack Company changed the recipe for its chocolate pudding. At the same time the company revised much of the labeling on the pudding container. lt is both interesting and instructive … Continue reading
This is a guest blog post by Carol Harvey, Director of food/nutrition labeling and product development at Palate Works. Q: When does a granola cereal have only 120 calories? A: When it’s labeled with the wrong serving size. Glutenfreeda has a line … Continue reading
The BBC reports that a uniform front of pack nutrition label is expected to appear on most food packages next year. The labels will not be mandatory, as that would require a pan European agreement, but the British government is … Continue reading
![Corn Syrup’s Secret Labeling Trick Explained [Part 2 / 2]](http://bmedia.fooducate.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Karo-Corn-Syrup-Nutrition.jpg "Corn Syrup’s Secret Labeling Trick Explained [Part 2 / 2]")
This post was prepared with the help Carol Harvey, Director of food/nutrition labeling and product development at Palate Works. Yesterday we showed how corn syrup can be used in a product to lower the nutrition label sugar count. Today, we explain … Continue reading
The journal Agricultural Economics recently published some interesting conclusions from an analysis of 25,000 responses in the U.S. National Health Interview Survey. Researchers found that people who read nutrition labels are thinner than those who don’t: People living in metro … Continue reading
Nutrition labels are now available on 40 cuts of meat at your local grocer’s. The USDA mandated labeling came into effect this week, almost 20 years after the FDA mandated nutrition label appeared on packaged foods. There is no need … Continue reading
A recent article in the Chicago Tribune, Good Carb, Bad Carb, caught our eye because of its title “Good Carbs, Bad Carbs”. Carbohydrates, to remind you are one of the three macronutrients making up almost all foods, alongside with fat and … Continue reading
Here’s an interesting article in a recent edition of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association. Apparently, people read nutrition labels much less than they think they do. Researchers reached this conclusion by monitoring eye movements of approximately 200 volunteers. This … Continue reading
Note: See below reminder for Today’s Food Day Supermarket Tour Here’s an interesting piece of research published in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association: People don’t really read nutrition labels as much as they report they do. Researchers used … Continue reading
The FDA is planning a minor facelift to the 20 year old nutrition label. When nutrition labels were introduced into the market, the food industry battled vehemently against them, while the government and health organizations explained that providing detailed information … Continue reading