Deciphering Servings, Calories, Ingredients & Nutrition Facts: Guide to Reading Food Labels for Health Tip
Buying healthy food products is not child’s play given the sly marketing tactics, obnoxious ingredient lists and puzzling nutrition labels for food. Nonetheless, packaged foods make up a significant portion of our daily diet. So you must ensure that they are nutritious and not hazardous.
What you’ll learn
- Quickly Spot Healthy Options: You will be able to quickly identify healthy food options by understanding key nutritional information on labels..
- Cut Through Marketing Hype: Learn how to differentiate between marketing claims and factual nutritional information to make informed food choices..
- Decipher Ingredients for Allergy Safety: Learn to recognize and avoid ingredients that may cause allergies or sensitivities..
- Understand Serving Sizes and Portions: Gain insights into how serving sizes on labels can impact your dietary intake and how to adjust portions accordingly..
Course Content
- Introduction to Food Labels –> 2 lectures • 37min.
- Decoding Ingredients on a Food Label –> 8 lectures • 1hr 14min.
- Decoding Nutrition Facts Label –> 2 lectures • 17min.
- Understanding Health and Nutrition Claims –> 2 lectures • 57min.
- How to Make Informed Food Choices While Buying Foods and Beverages –> 1 lecture • 8min.
Requirements
Buying healthy food products is not child’s play given the sly marketing tactics, obnoxious ingredient lists and puzzling nutrition labels for food. Nonetheless, packaged foods make up a significant portion of our daily diet. So you must ensure that they are nutritious and not hazardous.
Turn Perplexing Food Labels into Smart Eating Choices
Learn How To Interpret Nutrition Labels And Ingredient Lists To Make Informed Food Choices
Now you will have questions like:
How do I read a food label?
Are claims like “100% natural”, “Sugar-free”, “High Nutrition Value”, etc. really true?
Are nutrition facts and ingredients mentioned on the pack safe to trust?
What are those weird chemical names, “may-contain” ingredients and numbers?
Learning Path
Part 1: Introduction to food labels and FSSAI mandates
Part 2 and 3: Decoding ingredients present in common packaged foods and beverages in India
- Order of the ingredients mentioned on a label
- Percentage calculation and total of each ingredient
- Sugar and its various hidden names
- Additives and preservatives- meaning and difference
- Food colourants
- Natural vs artificial flavours
- Thickening and stabilizing agents: INS and E ingredients
- Natural-sounding ingredients: nature-derived/nature-identical
Part 4: Discovering health and nutritional claims on the food labels
Part 5: How to make informed choices by making sense of food labels