Nutrition Facts Label
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Depends what it is. Sometimes I check for artificial sweeteners because I try to avoid most of those. I also check for sugars in drinks because some drinks have terrifying amounts of sugar in them. I hardly ever drink fizzy drinks these days so when I do I find the amount of sugar to be verging on unpleasant.
Sometimes I read the labels just because it's like the nutritional equivalent of a train wreck in slow motion. That's often more about the entertainment value of finding that a "serving" is 22% of the small pie I can fit in one hand, because some genius decided that the obvious thing to do is cut a pie into 4.5 servings. The reality is more likely that someone would cut the pie in half or maybe eat it in one sitting, and the entire pie contains 478% of your recommended daily sugar intake.
When the item is something you'd cut into slices like bread rather than like a pie, and the serving size is so small you'd think they were slicing meat to put in a sandwich to charge $85 at a ballgame, a slice so thin you'd be able to see through it, I wonder what planet these people are on. But then I figure they are just massaging the "serving size" so they can quote numbers that the average person will think are OK, because the average person probably doesn't stop to consider what they call a serving and what the label calls a serving.
Sometimes I read the labels just because it's like the nutritional equivalent of a train wreck in slow motion. That's often more about the entertainment value of finding that a "serving" is 22% of the small pie I can fit in one hand, because some genius decided that the obvious thing to do is cut a pie into 4.5 servings. The reality is more likely that someone would cut the pie in half or maybe eat it in one sitting, and the entire pie contains 478% of your recommended daily sugar intake.
When the item is something you'd cut into slices like bread rather than like a pie, and the serving size is so small you'd think they were slicing meat to put in a sandwich to charge $85 at a ballgame, a slice so thin you'd be able to see through it, I wonder what planet these people are on. But then I figure they are just massaging the "serving size" so they can quote numbers that the average person will think are OK, because the average person probably doesn't stop to consider what they call a serving and what the label calls a serving.
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I mainly look at the total carbs line so I can tell how much insulin I may need to cover it.
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I mainly check for carbs and sugar. I am Type 2 diabetes and need to keep those low so as not to have my blood glucose go high.
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Only on stuff I don't normally purchase. First I check to see if it contains any animal products, since I'm Vegan. Second I check for specific things, like with bread I buy, I check the fiber content, to make sure it's relatively high in contrast to carbohydrates. Vegan gut microbiome depends on fiber to stay satisfied/satiated so I don't want to go hungry eating low fiber bread. Third, I read the ingredients to make sure there isn't anything in it I don't want going into my body, such as artificial sweeteners, soy protein isolate and other things I consider unhealthy.
Some products, like pickles, I check the sugar content to make sure it's low, as I prefer relatively unsweetened pickles.