| almost 1/3 of Americans don't understand nutritional labels on food.....
Saw this on the news this morning, a CDC study pollled 2500 people about their understanding of nutritional labels. Of the 2500 polled, 75% had at least completed high school.
That being said, only 69% of the people polled completely understood the nutritional labels. The one thing that people did not seem to understand was serving size.
For example, a 20 oz. bottle of Coca-Cola showed on the label that each serving was say 100 calories and had 25 grams of sugar. What people didn't realize was that a 20 oz. bottle had 2.5 servings, since each serving is only 8 ounces. So if you drank the whole bottle, you would actually injest 250 calories and 62.5 grams of sugar!
Another trick is that if a food has say half a gram of transfat or less, it will be listed as 0g trans-fat on the lable. So if a food has half a gram of transfat per serving, there are 8 servings in the package of food and you eat the whole package, you will eat 4 grams of transfat.....but looking at the label would lead you to believe otherwise.
Be careful!
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