By now, you’ve heard about the proposed updates of the Nutrition Facts labels on food packages. After nearly 20 years, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has finally gotten around to making a few changes, such as listing calorie counts in larger type and adjusting portion sizes to reflect a more realistic portion. By no means is this coming soon enough. The changes are the first significant revisions of nutrition information on food labels since the government began requiring it in the early 1990s. Tsk, tsk.
According to Chicago-based global research firm the NPD Group, interest in reading labels has steadily waned among U.S. households. NPD Group says its ongoing food and beverage market research indicates that consumers read the labels when they first appeared, but as time went on, many stopped checking them for what’s in their food.