食品包装声明
Have you ever bought a food because the package said the item was “low-sodium” or “low-fat” or made some other claim? It’s important to understand what these claims mean so you can make informed decisions about the food you buy for yourself and your family.
There are three categories of claims defined by statute and/or FDA regulations that can be used on food and dietary supplement labels:
- 健康功效,
- 营养成分声明，以及
- 结构/功能要求.
A "health claim" by definition has two essential components:
- A substance (whether a food, food component, or dietary ingredient) and
- 疾病:疾病或与健康有关的状况.
“Nutrient content claims” are used for two purposes:
- To describe the level of a nutrient in the product using terms such as free, high, and low or
- To compare the level of a nutrient in a food to another food using terms such as more, reduced, 和lite.
Here are some of the most commonly used 营养成分声明，以及 what each claim generally means.
Calories |
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| 如果一种食物声称是… | 意思是一份*含有… |
| 卡免费 | 少于5卡路里 |
| 低热量 | 40卡路里或以下 |
| 减少卡路里 | At least 25% less calories than the regular product |
Sugar |
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| 如果一种食物声称是… | 意思是一份*含有… |
| 无糖 | 小于0.5 grams sugars and no ingredient that is a sugar |
| 低糖或少糖 | At least 25% less sugars than the regular product |
| 无添加糖 | No sugar or sugar-containing ingredient added during processing or packaging |
Fat |
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| 如果一种食物声称是… | 意思是一份*含有… |
| Fat free | 小于0.5克脂肪，不含脂肪成分 |
| Low fat | 3 g of fat or less (and not more than 30% of calories from fat for meals and main dishes) |
| 减少脂肪或少脂肪 | At least 25% less fat than the regular product |
| 低饱和脂肪 | 1克或更少的饱和脂肪, and 15% or less of the calories coming from saturated fat (10% or less for meals and main dishes) |
| Lean | 脂肪少于10克.5 g of saturated fat and 95 mg of cholesterol |
| 额外的精益 | Less than 5 g of fat, 2 g of saturated fat and 95 mg of cholesterol |
| 光(lite) | At least 50% less fat than the regular product (or 1/3 fewer calories if less than 50% of calories are from fat) |
胆固醇 |
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| 如果一种食物声称是… | 意思是一份*含有… |
| 胆固醇免费 | Less than 2 mg of cholesterol and no ingredient that contains cholesterol |
| 低胆固醇 | 少摄入20毫克的胆固醇 |
| 降低胆固醇 | At least 25% less cholesterol than the regular product |
Sodium |
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| 如果一种食物声称是… | 意思是一份*含有… |
| 不含钠，不含盐或者不含钠 | Less than 5 mg of sodium and no ingredient that is sodium chloride or contains sodium |
| 钠含量极低 | 35毫克或更少的钠 |
| 低钠 | 140毫克或更少的钠 |
| 减少或更少的钠 | At least 25% less sodium than the regular product |
| 钠中的光或生命 | At least 50% less sodium than the regular product |
| 腌 | 比正常情况下少加50%的钠 |
| 不加盐或不加盐 | 加工过程中不添加盐. 如果食物不含钠, the statement “not a sodium free food” or “not for control of sodium in the diet” must also appear on the label. |
Fiber |
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| 如果一种食物声称是… | 意思是一份*含有… |
| 高纤维或极佳的纤维来源 | 20% or more of the Daily Value (DV) for fiber |
| 良好的纤维来源 | 纤维每日摄入量(DV)的10-19% |
*Based on the labeled serving size and/or the reference amount customarily consumed (RACC)
If you can’t remember the meaning of all of the terms, don’t worry. 您可以使用以下一般指导:
- “Free” means a food has the least possible amount of the specified nutrient.
- “Very Low”和“Low” means the food has a little more than foods labeled “Free.”
- " Reduced "或" Less " mean the food has 25% less of a specific nutrient than the regular product.
- "More," "Fortified," "Enriched," "Added," "Extra," or "Plus" means the food has 10% or more of the Daily Value (DV) than the regular product. May only be used for vitamins, minerals, protein, dietary fiber, and potassium.
