What are the different sections of a food label?
A food label has various sections. The top section is where the nutrition label tells you what a serving is, and how many servings are in the bag or the box or whatever container it's in. The next section under that tells us how many calories that one serving will provide, and then also how many of those total amount of calories, how many of those calories are due to fat. The reason for that is, in general, we want to try to keep our overall calorie allotment to be 3% from fat. Now, if you take the calories from fat and you multiply it by three, and it's more than total calories, then you know that food's a high-fat food. You should probably limit the amount that you have. The next section is the total fat section. And that breaks down all the different types of fats. The new addition this year has been trans fats, which we want to definitely limit, and try actually to eliminate from our diet, because they have been shown to contribute greatly to heart disease. Underneath fat, then, you can look up how many total carbohydrates that the food has, and then within that group, the different types of carbohydrate. Then you have your protein as well. At the very bottom, it lists for you all the different vitamins and minerals in that particular food - or in one serving of that food.
