Wow , 2016 has been a year of exciting facelifts at faceless American government office . The Treasury Department announced it would replaceracist maniacAndrew Jackson with abolitionist and all - around decent human Harriet Tubman as the face of the $ 20 bill ; not to be outperform , the Food & Drug Administration and its red - hot maverick of a young commissioner , Dr. Robert Califf , unveil a new look to the Nutrition Panelthat ’s ask to look on the mass - produced food - like materials that sustain you through college .
Oh , slight changes to government standards do n’t on the button scream " baddest news on the profit " to you ? Well , here ’s the short version : the new label feature several changes , the most notable of which are increased serve size and an " Added Sugars " section . In short , the FDA has finally acknowledged that Americans are sugar fiends who eat right smart too much .
Americans eat way more than they used to
As the FDA tactfullyputs it , " What and how much the great unwashed eat and drink has changed since the last serving size requirements were write in 1993 . " That belt ’s fitting a fiddling bit tighter than it did in the early ' 90s , America ! Lolz , you gotfat . Basically , theserving size jumped up , because who ’s going to eat 200 calories of mint chocolate silicon chip ice cream ? There ’s still roughly 123 minutes ofJerry Maguireleft once you terminate .
Another component to the serving - size modification is that fellowship ca n’t get away with claiming there are 17 servings in a 40 oz jug of soda , or whatever mass bribe in Texas now . If a food or drink is sold in a package meant to be consumed by one mortal , it equate one serving .
Packaged food tends to have more added sugar than people realize
Which is why the unexampled recording label has a ready to hand " Includes Xg Added Sugars " discussion section , so that consumers will get it on when their gluten - spare " health " redneck actually have a metric ton ( approximately ) of gamey - fructose edible corn sirup pump into them . And if there ’s one thing consumer can be bank to do , it ’s make healthy decisions based on a few words printed on the tasty substances they ’re about shove down their esophaguses . That ’s why no one ever operate heavy machinery after drinking inebriant .
Vitamins A and C are out, D and potassium are in
Everyone ’s within on computers all the time and it ’s making them solitary and sorry and lacking in vitamin vitamin D and K . Americans used to be deficient in A and C , but a newfangled era cry for new vitamin deficiencies – which means vitamin five hundred and K levels are required , while A and century move into the " optional " category .
All in all, these aren’t bad changes
front , say what you will about the effectivity and speed with which vast government bureaucracies operate , these change at least acknowledge two key problem with the American food industry : vast do size of it and too much lettuce , the latter of which chip in to all sorts ofnasty wellness problemsfrom diabetes to centre disease and so on . So now all the FDA has to do is convince mass to learn these things , which should n’t be too heavy at all , since Americans are known for accommodate well and without katzenjammer to information that might expect them to modify their behavior .
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