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I want to know what I'm eating. I used to LOVE Power Crunch Bars but noticed that I always got tired after eating them. The tired feeling was very similar to what I feel when I dump.
I checked the nutritional breakdown and it all checked out as far as health levels. However, the ingredients include one that my body (and many wls RNY patients) causes a dump. That experience showed me the critical importance of not only reading the nutritional breakdown but going even further to the ingredient list.
Do you know that the first three ingredients comprise the majority of what the item is made of?
A survey released today by the Nielsen Co. found that 65% of American consumers say they notice information on food packaging more often compared to only two years ago.
Sixty-seven percent of U.S. consumers claim to mostly understanding what they are reading compared to 44% world-wide. That leaves a third of the U.S. and more than half the world wondering exactly what Sodium Benzoate and other ingredients and metrics actually mean.
"The relationship between consumers and nutritional information and labeling provides unmistakable insight into health and diet concerns," said Deepak Varma, svp-Nielsen Customized Research in a statement. Nielsen, which owns Brandweek, polled 28,253 Internet users in 51 markets in April.
More than half (51%) of U.S. consumers always check fat content followed by 48% who always check the calories and 44% who look at the sugar content. Sodium (37%), carbohydrates (35%) and even gluten (9%) are among key concerns.
Forty-two percent of U.S. consumers said they check a product's label when buying it for the first time. Eight percent said they never read labels.
You are what you eat so know what you are eating!
Cathy
I checked the nutritional breakdown and it all checked out as far as health levels. However, the ingredients include one that my body (and many wls RNY patients) causes a dump. That experience showed me the critical importance of not only reading the nutritional breakdown but going even further to the ingredient list.
Do you know that the first three ingredients comprise the majority of what the item is made of?
A survey released today by the Nielsen Co. found that 65% of American consumers say they notice information on food packaging more often compared to only two years ago.
Sixty-seven percent of U.S. consumers claim to mostly understanding what they are reading compared to 44% world-wide. That leaves a third of the U.S. and more than half the world wondering exactly what Sodium Benzoate and other ingredients and metrics actually mean.
"The relationship between consumers and nutritional information and labeling provides unmistakable insight into health and diet concerns," said Deepak Varma, svp-Nielsen Customized Research in a statement. Nielsen, which owns Brandweek, polled 28,253 Internet users in 51 markets in April.
More than half (51%) of U.S. consumers always check fat content followed by 48% who always check the calories and 44% who look at the sugar content. Sodium (37%), carbohydrates (35%) and even gluten (9%) are among key concerns.
Forty-two percent of U.S. consumers said they check a product's label when buying it for the first time. Eight percent said they never read labels.
You are what you eat so know what you are eating!
Cathy
Cathy
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