{"id":3494,"date":"2009-08-06T13:51:28","date_gmt":"2009-08-06T11:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=3494"},"modified":"2015-10-17T08:38:15","modified_gmt":"2015-10-17T06:38:15","slug":"the-food-industry-agrees-food-labels-are-misleading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=3494","title":{"rendered":"The Food Industry Agrees:  Food Labels are Misleading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a \"href=\"http:\/\/www.ific.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">The International Food Information Council<\/a>, these are the top 3 \u201cchallenges\u201d consumers face with the nutrition panel:<br \/>\n1. <strong>Misleading serving size<\/strong>.<br \/>\n2.<strong> Consumers do not consider their consumption of foods and beverages in the context of their daily intake<\/strong>. This is also true, as 63% of consumers do not know what their daily calorie intake should be. Do you know yours?<br \/>\n3. <strong>Consumers do not realize information to help them interpret daily context exists on nutrition panels<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The recommendations are:<br \/>\n1. <strong>Clarify serving size<\/strong>.<br \/>\n2. <strong>Call attention to daily intake<\/strong>.<br \/>\n3.\u00a0<strong>Increase trustworthiness<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hemi from fooducate also mentions the top 4 influences on a purchase decision as:<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Taste<br \/>\n2. Price<br \/>\n3. Healthfulness<br \/>\n4. Convenience<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fooducate.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/06\/the-food-industry-agrees-food-labels-are-misleading\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3494"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3494"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4291,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3494\/revisions\/4291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}