Calories
Nutrients
New Label
Disease Prevention
Things You Should Know
100

This is the low range for calories.

What is 70-80 calories?

100

These are nutrients I should limit.

What are fat, cholesterol, and sodium?

100

This font size increased on the new label.

What is the font size of calories?
100
Overeating calories, fats, sodium, and added sugar can lead to these diseases.

What are diabetes and obesity?

100

To know how many calories I am actually eating I should look at these.

What are serving size and number of servings per container?

200

This is the medium range for calories.

What is 100-150 calories?

200

These are nutrients I want a high %DV of.

What are vitamin D, calcium, fiber, iron, and potassium?

200

This was added below total sugars.

What is added sugars?

200

Reading this can help reduce your risk of developing nutrition-related diseases.

What is the Nutrition Facts Label?

200

This is added to many packaged foods, snack foods, and restaurant meals.

What is sugar and salt?

300

This is considered a high amount of calories.

What is 400 calories?

300

These nutrients have no %DV.

What are protein, trans fat, and sugars?

300

This increased to make portions of food more realistic.

What is serving size?

300

Eating too many of these may increase your risk of certain chronic diseases, like heart disease, some cancers, or high blood pressure.

What are sodium, saturated fat, fat, and cholesterol?

300

This percentage of fat is considered healthy.

What is 5% or lower?

400

The percent Daily Value is based on this amount of calories.

What is 2000 calories?

400

These nutrients are at the bottom of the label.

What are vitamin D, calcium, iron, and potassium?

400

A soda bottle is considered this because multiple servings are not realistic. 

What is a single-serving package?

400

This nutrient helps in digestion and prevention of diseases.

What is fiber?

400

You should try to get at least 100% of the DV for these nutrients.

What are vitamin D, calcium, iron, and potassium?

500

The amount of calories per container may increase or decrease due to this.

What is serving size?

500

These are macronutrients.

What are carbohydrates, proteins, and fats?

500

These are required on food packages that can be consumed in one sitting or multiple sittings. 

What is dual column labeling?

500

Calories from this are no longer required to be included on the label because the type we consume is more important to avoid diseases such as diabetes and obesity.

What are fats?

500

This organization requires a Nutrition Facts Label on all packaged food.

What is the Food and Drug Administration?

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