The History of Food Labels
This caused the emergence of food labeling as a safety precaution for consumers.
What were foodborne illness outbreaks in the 1850s?
This refers to serving larger portion sizes in restaurants, which can lead to overeating and weight gain.
What is portion distortion?
This is what DV stands for on nutrition labels.
What is Daily Value?
What a product is labeled this it does not contain genetically modified organisms.
This is how many calories a food can contain in order to be labeled as 0 calories.
What is 5 calories?
After the highly publicized death of U.S. President Zachary Taylor for consuming contaminated fruit and milk, President Abraham Lincoln created this in 1862.
What is the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)?
This is the % Daily Value (DV) for sodium that the National Restaurant Association's Menu Labeling Rule recommends for adults.
What is 2,300 milligrams or less?
This is the typical amount of calories it is recommended to consume per day for an adult.
What is 2,000 calories?
When a product is labeled organic this is what it is telling you.
The product was produced without synthetic pesticides or genetically modified organisms.
This is considered “incidental” and does not need to be listed in nutrition facts.
What is sulfates?
In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that nutrition facts became mandatory on food products making health claims. This is the kind of claim that was considered illegal, leading to this ruling.
What are claims about preventing or curing a specific disease?
This is the % Daily Value (DV) for saturated fat that the National Restaurant Association's Menu Labeling Rule recommends for adults.
What is 16 grams or less for men and 13 grams or less for women?
This is the amount of calories in a gram of carbohydrates or protein.
What is 4 calories?
Nutrition labels break down the amount of these 6 things per serving of food
What is Calories, carbs, fat, fiber, protein and vitamins?
The entity that determines the accuracy of nutrition labels on products?
Who is the manufacturers of the product itself?
This is the number of years it would take before a recognizable nutritional facts panel was mandated on all food products.
What is 128 years?
This term is used to label restaurants that focus on serving organic and locally sourced ingredients.
What is Farm-to-Table?
This is the nutrient you should limit to no more than 10% of your daily calories, according to the percent daily value on a nutrition label.
What is saturated fat?
If a product is "low fat" this is the maximum amount of fat that can be in one serving.
What is 3 grams of fat?
This is percentage of inaccuracy that is allowed in the United States on nutrition labels
What is 20%?
The government agency in the United States regulates and sets guidelines for food labeling.
What is the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)?
The name of the initiative that requires restaurants to post nutrition information for their menu items.
What is the National Restaurant Association's Menu Labeling Rule?
This is the maximum amount of added sugar (in teaspoons) that a restaurant can serve in a single meal under the National Restaurant Association's Menu Labeling Rule.
What is 12 teaspoons for adults and 10 teaspoons for children
Did you know that there is an order to the madness of the ingredients on the food label? This is the reason for the order.
What is listing the components in descending order of quantity?
This is the serving size of maraschino cherries
What is 1 cherry?