How to read food labels?

During the weight loss period, because of the need to control the total energy intake and increase the types of food intake, we usually ask the weight loss person to try to avoid eating high-energy packaged foods during the concentrated weight loss period. The outer packaging of what we usually call packaged food will have "food label" information, including food ingredients, net content, applicable population and eating methods, nutritional composition table and related nutritional information, etc.

Among them, the nutrition label is the most important part of the pre-packaged food label, including the nutrition label, nutrition claim and nutrition function claim.

See "ingredients" list

The list of ingredients is the most important way to understand the main raw materials of food and identify the composition of food. In layman's terms, the list of ingredients tells consumers what raw materials the food is made of. According to the principle of "decreasing material consumption", the ingredients (table) list food raw materials, auxiliary materials, food additives, etc. in order according to the amount of ingredients used.

See "Nutrition Facts"

There is a lot of information on the prepackaged food to show the nutritional characteristics of the food, such as the nutrient composition list, and there are also nutrition claims and nutrient function claims.

Nutrient composition table is a three-column form of nutrient composition content table on the label of prepackaged food, indicating the energy provided by each 100g or 100ml food and the content value of protein, fat, saturated fat, carbohydrate, sugar, sodium and other nutrients. and its percentage of nutrient reference value.