Health Tip: Decode Nutritional Labels

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Determining whether your food is nutritious can be challenge.

The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics offers these suggestions for deciphering product nutrition labels:

• Review all ingredients. Those listed first have higher percentages for that product.
• Compare the label’s serving size with your standard portion size, and make sure they are similar.
• Note the total calories of each serving size.
• The “Percent Daily Values” describes how much of the suggested daily requirement of each ingredient
  your food contains. Make sure you don’t overdo saturated fat, salt or sugar.
• Get plenty of vitamins, minerals and fiber.

Source: HealthDay

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