Consumer Awareness Food Facts
"Safety" is one of the most basic factors driving consumer food purchasing behaviors, and consumer awareness of food safety issues is high, according to Understanding Consumer Attitudes About Food Safety: How Food Manufacturers, Retailers and the Food Service Industry Can Build Consumer Trust, a collaborative report from market research publisher Packaged Facts, a division of MarketResearch.com, and Wharf Research.
- If you see a label on an individual food stating that it is low cholesterol it cannot contain more than 20mg of cholesterol per serving and 2 grams of fat.
- The government allows 350 pesticide ingredients to be used on crops. Approximately 70 of these have been classified as possible carcinogens.
- If a food is labeled low fat it cannot contain more than 3 grams of fat per individual serving. This may still be high since most companies figure 30 percent of your calories can come from fat. Still need to calculate and multiply 9 calories per gram times the total amount of fat you are actually eating.
- The only low fat milks are 1 percent, which are 16 percent fats after you remove the water, skim and buttermilk.
- If the label reads low in saturated fat, the food cannot have more than one gram of fat per serving. Make sure, however, that you count up the total in the full amount you are eating, it may be higher than you think.
- Sorbital, used as a sweetener in diabetic candies can cause diarrhea.
- Pineapple juice may help keep arteries clear and with the chemical bromelin.
- Ninety-seven percent of people who purchased processed foods never read the labels according to a survey. The same survey showed that 84 percent still do not read the labels.
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