Question

Describe the role of nutritional food labels impacting health today.

Nutrition Essentials for Nursing Practice 7th Edition Author: Susan G. Dudek

Answer 1

In past people were not so health conscious and because of that they were not used to see the labels of food and because of this people ended up having unhealthy food.

Nutritional labels do play a very important role in health today because it has almost the specific amount of ingredients that should be consumed and it is also written how much you shouldn't eat. People do require proper amount of protein, carbohydrates and fats inorder to function properly and food labels allow them to do exactly that.

Information of other micronutrients are also written like minerals and vitamins. Some products contain caffeine and in such cases consumer should always see for the content as it is harmful for our health and in such products maximum consumption per day is also written.

So, according to your daily requirements, one should always buy products by seeing food labels as it has a great impacts on our life.