Lesson 2.3: Food Labelling

Food packages have labels that provide information required by law.  What kind of information is provided on the labels? 

Read Food Labelling on page 205 of your textbook. Then, answer the following questions.

 

Question 1. What three types of information are found on a food label?

Question 2. What is the order to the way the ingredients are listed?

Question 3. What is the order to the way the nutrients are listed?

Question 4. Is the nutritional information based on the whole package or a serving size?

 

 

Check your answers with those that follow.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Answers to Questions:

Question 1. What three types of information are found on a food label?

The three types of information that are found on a food label are:

        • advertising
        • preparation instructions
        • nutrition information

Question 2. What is the order to the way the ingredients are listed?

The ingredients are listed from largest percentage composition to smallest percentage composition.

Question 3. What is the order to the way the nutrients are listed?

No order is evident in the way the nutrients are listed.

Question 4. Is the nutritional information based on the whole package or a serving size?

The nutritional information is based on a serving size. In this Mac and Cheese example the serving size is 175 mL.

 


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