New FDA labels include nutrition info for eating that whole bag of chips or pint of ice cream

New guidelines require two side-by-side columns: one with nutritional information for a single serving, and a second with information for eating the entire package.

Perhaps most notably, new guidelines require two side-by-side columns: one with nutritional information for a single serving, and a second with information for eating the entire package.Manufacturers that yield less than $10 million in annual food sales will have until 2021 to comply with the new rules.

Serving sizes are based on Americans' eating habits, determined by the amount people said they consumed in federal food surveys over the past few decades. Consuming too much added sugar has been linked to weight gain, obesity, type 2 diabetes and heart disease,Customers shop in the grocery area at a Target Corp. store in Chicago, Nov. 16, 2019.Differentiating between naturally occurring and added sugar could also clear up confusion among Americans who think that all sugar is bad for them.

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