It’s the first thing that any health-conscious person turns to when weighing the value of a food or drink product – the great Nutrition Facts Label. Well, the FDA with support from Michelle Obama is proposing to revise these labels to “place a bigger emphasis on total calories, added sugars and certain nutrients, such as Vitamin D and potassium.”
Interesting. But will the label revisions make a difference? In my opinion, the new labels put too great an emphasis on caloric content of a product. If a reader looks at a label and is bombarded with a large and bold Calories indication, then they may not take a sufficient look at the rest of the label which is arguably just as (if not more) important.