{"id":3895,"date":"2025-09-23T20:19:43","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T20:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/?page_id=3895"},"modified":"2025-09-29T20:29:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T20:29:04","slug":"the-new-nutrition-facts-label","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/the-new-nutrition-facts-label\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Nutrition Facts Label"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"291\" src=\"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2025\/09\/nutrition-facts-label_0.png\" alt=\"sample nutrition facts label\n\" class=\"wp-image-3896\" style=\"width:320px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2025\/09\/nutrition-facts-label_0.png 320w, https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2025\/09\/nutrition-facts-label_0-300x273.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:18px\">In 2016, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) made changes to what nutritional information food manufacturers are required to report and how they are required to report it. All manufacturers were required to make the changes by Jan 1st, 2021. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:18px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/food\/new-nutrition-facts-label\/whats-new-nutrition-facts-label\"><strong>The New Nutrition Facts Label website<\/strong><\/a> provides information on what has changed and how to interpret the nutrition label. (The site is also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/food\/new-nutrition-facts-label\/la-nueva-etiqueta-de-informacion-nutricional\">available in Spanish<\/a>.) Exploring the information at this site can lead to discussions that are rich and relevant to students\u2019 lives as well as involving a number of important math concepts. There are links to pages that explain each major change in detail and in friendly language, including examples. There are even short videos about the changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:18px\">Two changes are especially worth exploring are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:18px\">1) The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/food\/new-nutrition-facts-label\/serving-size-new-nutrition-facts-label\">serving size<\/a> has changed from how much people \u201cshould\u201d eat to how much people typically \u201cdo\u201d eat. Since all of the other information on the label depends on the serving size, this is a big deal. How does this change how you will read the label? Does this change make it easier or harder for you to make decisions about what to buy?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:18px\">2)&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/food\/new-nutrition-facts-label\/lows-and-highs-percent-daily-value-new-nutrition-facts-label\">Percent daily values<\/a> have been updated. This is a great topic to explore to build comfort with percents. Some good discussion topics&nbsp;include:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li style=\"font-size:18px\">Should the percents on the label add up to 100%? Why or why not?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"font-size:18px\">Why is it important to know that the percents are based on a 2,000 calorie diet? What should you do if your diet is more or less than 2,000 calories?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"font-size:18px\">For which nutrients should you try to eat <em>at least<\/em> 100% of the daily value? For which should you try to eat <em>no more than<\/em> 100% of the daily value?&nbsp;Why?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:18px\">Another great feature of this site is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accessdata.fda.gov\/scripts\/InteractiveNutritionFactsLabel\/\">Interactive Nutrition Facts Label<\/a>, where each part of the label links to an explanation and detailed information about that particular piece (for example, protein or added sugars). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/food\/new-nutrition-facts-label\/how-understand-and-use-nutrition-facts-label\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The How to Understand and Use the Nutrition Facts Label page<\/a> also explains the different parts with details and examples. And the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/food\/new-nutrition-facts-label\/read-label-youth-outreach-materials#parents\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read the Label Youth Outreach Materials<\/a> are some materials for parents to use to teach their children how to read the labels (available in English and Spanish).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:18px\">These resources could be incorporated into lessons on health and wellness. In a math class, this information could be tied into lessons on data, proportional reasoning, fractions, percents, and units of measurement (cups, ounces, grams, milligrams, micrograms, etc.). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2025\/09\/Modeling-benchmark-percents-and-fractions_w_AK.pdf\">Download the Modeling Benchmark Percents and Fractions sample lesson<\/a> <\/strong>(includes answer key).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-highlight wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Other related resources:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li style=\"font-size:18px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-percents\/\">How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Percents<\/a> (Blog)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"font-size:18px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myplate.gov\/\">Choose My Plate<\/a> from the U.S. Department of Agriculture<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2016, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) made changes to what nutritional information food manufacturers are required to report and how they are required to report it. All manufacturers were required to make the changes by Jan 1st, 2021. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/food\/new-nutrition-facts-label\/whats-new-nutrition-facts-label\">The New Nutrition Facts Label website<\/a> provides information on what has changed and how to interpret the nutrition label. (The site is also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/food\/new-nutrition-facts-label\/la-nueva-etiqueta-de-informacion-nutricional\">available in Spanish<\/a>.) Exploring the information at this site can lead to discussions that are rich and relevant to students\u2019 lives as well as involving a number of important math concepts.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/the-new-nutrition-facts-label\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-fullwidth.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"720,1582,1656,2359,2371,2934","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3895","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3895"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4264,"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3895\/revisions\/4264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/adultnumeracycenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}