Understanding nutrition labels

1. UNDERSTANDING
NUTRITION LABELS
Dr. Yousef Elshrek

2. • NEW NUTRITION LABELS ON THE WAY STARTING
IN 2016 . NEW LABELS REQUIRED BY JULY 2019.
• The new label helps you limit added sugar.
• It will also help you find foods with more vitamin D and
potassium.
• Always look at the serving size and serving per container.
• Some packages that you would normally eat one sitting may
have two or more servings .
• The new label helps by listing nutrition per container in more
of these cases.
• Some servings sizes are also increased on the new lables.

3. • Look at the following examples original and new labels.

4. • Eating one serving you 1 gm saturated fat ( 5% daily value )
which is now
• however eating the whole package gives you servings; to the
total 8 gm saturated fat ( 40% daily value)which is high.
• USE THE PERCENT DAILY VALUE AS A QUICK
GUIDE TO NUTRITION
• 5 % or less means a serving is low in a nutrient.
• 10%- 19% means a serving is medium in a nutrient.
• 20% means a serving is high in a nutrient.
• REFERENCE
• Samaritan, health services samhealth.org/Nutrition