Labels baffle shoppers
By Herald Reporter - 25 August 2015
CONSUMERS may struggle to understand food nutrition panels that include “added sugars+,” a study suggests, illustrating the challenge ahead as US health officials consider putting this detail on food labels to nudge Americans to cut back on sweets.
When researchers showed consumers nutrition panels that broke out the grams of “added sugars” as part of the total grams of sugar in the food, many people miscalculated the amount of sugar. – Reuters
