The Food and Drug Administration recently proposed updated criteria for labeling foods with the nutrient content claim "healthy" on their packaging.  The proposal comes the same day as the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health.  The rule would align the definition of the “healthy” claim with current nutrition science, the updated Nutrition Facts label and the current Dietary Guidelines for Americans.  FDA says more than 80% of people in the U.S. aren’t eating enough vegetables, fruit and dairy.  And most people consume too much added sugars, saturated fat and sodium.

 

The proposed rule is part of the agency’s ongoing commitment to helping consumers improve nutrition and dietary patterns to help reduce the burden of chronic disease.  The proposed rule would update the “healthy” claim definition to better account for how all the nutrients in various food groups contribute and may work synergistically to create healthy dietary patterns and improve health.

 

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