A nutrition fact label is a label which is required on pre packaged foods. This label contains the details about the level of nutrients in the packaged food. These labels have information regarding the contents and their quantity like vitamins, minerals, fats, proteins and other such nutrients.

There are regional manifestations for the labels which are to be provided on the food packets and containers. These labels help in choosing the right brand and the right food for an individual.

But in many cases this has been noticed that the information in the labels is not correct or inconsistent. Like they may not contain the right quantity of the ingredients or they may lie about some harmful components like trans fats or some other preservative. Also some may lie about the carb and calorie content in the food to make them look for healthy for consumption. Eating food with trans fats is really bad regarding health point of view. FDA has made strict policies regarding mentioning the amount of trans fats in the food. But there are some loopholes in the policy like the companies don’t have to put trans fats on label if the amount of total fat is less than a specific value. Even after this companies are allowed to write that there is 0 gram trans fats in the food when the content of trans fats is less than or equal to 0.49 grams. So even if the label says that there are 0 trans fats, it may contain around 0.49 grams of trans fats.

Also many products say that they are partially hydrogenated and contain less amount of trans fats. Keep in mind that weather partially hydrogenated or not hydrogenated, it’s all the same. They have high levels of trans fats in them. So this is how products lie on the nutrition labels about the contents in the food. Also there are lie about various healthy components which they say they have, but actually they don’t.

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