Understanding Food Labels: A Complete Guide
Walking through a grocery store without knowing how to read food labels is like navigating without a map. The front of the package is marketing, designed to make you buy. The back tells the truth. Ingredients are listed in descending order by weight. The first three ingredients make up most of the product. Watch for sugar hiding under dozens of different names including corn syrup, dextrose, maltose, and fruit juice concentrate. Serving sizes are often unrealistically small. A bag of chips that looks like a single serving may list nutrition for a quarter of the bag. Pay attention to the ingredient list more than the nutrition facts panel.
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