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From the FDA page [1]: > To meet the updated criteria for the claim, a food product needs to: > 1. contain a certain amount of food from at least one of the f
by wgjordan 2y ago
From the FDA page [1]:
> To meet the updated criteria for the claim, a food product needs to:
> 1. contain a certain amount of food from at least one of the food groups or subgroups (such as fruit, vegetables, grains, fat-free and low-fat dairy and protein foods) recommended by the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, and
> 2. meet specific limits for added sugars, saturated fat and sodium.
[1] https://www.fda.gov/food/nutrition-food-labeling-and-critical-foods/use-term-healthy-food-labeling#Updated https://www.fda.gov/food/nutrition-food-labeling-and-critica...
- grecy 2y ago> recommended by the Dietary Guidelines for Americans Don’t we now know with 100% certainty the sugar lobby in America seriously manipulated the dietary guidelines?
- bsuvc 2y agoDo you mean corn? Most American food has High Fructose Corn Syrup instead of Sugar.
- Dylan16807 2y agoIt's still sugar, and the reason it's bad is because it's sugar rather than the exact composition.
- llamaimperative 2y agoI think they're saying it is the corn lobby, not the sugar lobby, that distorted our diet guidelines so much. Corn = huge "real American" industry Sugar = not
- Retric 2y agoCorn is the US sugar lobby. Pretending they are different things is mostly just marketing at this point.
- llamaimperative 2y ago“I hate what the sugar lobby has done to our country but damnit I’ll come out swinging against anyone coming after our corn farmers’ subsidies!” - a reasonable misunderstanding to have when people speak the way you’re suggesting
- Dylan16807 2y agoSaying it's really the corn lobby is fine, but "corn syrup instead of sugar" is not the right way to describe things.