Today we live exceedingly busy and demanding lives. As a result of this hectic daily pace, many of us are interested in streamlining daily activities as much as possible. One of those major daily activities is time spent in food preparation. It's nice to be able to use prepared foods to keep food prep. time down.
When we are purchasing prepared foods, we need to look carefully at the label to be sure about the ingredients that are included. These days, reading a food label may be just like reading a table of contents of a book. It takes time to check each label out. That is making food shopping more complicated than it used to be. So, careful food shopping takes a little longer than it used to.
The first thing to keep in mind when reading a food label is to know that it is based on a daily adult diet of 2,000 calories. This is the average amount that an adult consumes. So when a food label gives a percentage, it's telling you how much of that nutrient is provided based on the adult daily caloric intake of 2,000 calories.
The other thing that's important to read is the ingredients list. They are listed in order of the amount of each ingredient that is in the food. So, if the first ingredient is tomato, then there's lots of tomato in that food. Be aware of salt and sugar ingredients that appear high on the ingredients list-----they are likely to be salty or sweet foods that are not particularly healthy.
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