Michael Jacobson, director of CSPI, makes some strong suggestions for food brands in today’s NYT and Huffington Post
about how labels should more clearly communicate better for you and not so better for you ingredients. Among his suggestions, he urges more prominent display for calorie content; sugar info should include only refined sugars added to food not natural sugar; clear listing for partially hydrogenated oil not trans fat; and highlighting high amounts of saturated fats and sodium. He lauds rating systems of Food Lion and Hannaford Supermarkets and the NuVal system for its simplicity in giving credit to nutrients that we should be eating more of and subtracting credit for those we should avoid.








