Product Labeling

While grocery shopping the other day I noticed a U.S. product label for the first time. It happened to be on the package of chicken breasts I was buying. Now, either I’m unobservant, which is quite possible at times, or this really was the first time I was seeing origin labeling at my local supermarket. I have to admit, it was good to see. I also noticed a product of Chile label and a product of Mexico label. Interestingly, there is talk of a new nutrition scoring label on foods as well. The system called NuVal would give food scores based on nutritional value on a scale of 1 to 100. Speculating that the higher the number, the higher the nutrition value. These nutritional scores will be next to the price on your grocery store shelves. Consumers will still have to use some good old common sense though when it comes to these scores and compare foods in the same specific category; as in apples to oranges. Hopefully, a lot of the guess work will soon be gone when it comes to buying healthy and nutritional foods for your family.