It’s no secret that many people ignore, or are confused by, nutritional labeling. And the confusion intensifies when various front-of-package claims are added to the mix. Unless you know\u00a0a thing or two\u00a0about nutrition, it’s not always easy to make the best choices.<\/p>\n
Needless to state, industry initiatives like “Smart Choices<\/a>” and “Nutrition Keys<\/a>” have been pathetic, at best. So a cohort of nutritional and medical experts, led by Dr. David Katz of the Yale University School of Medicine\u00a0came up with their own system: Nu-Val<\/a>.<\/p>\n [youtube:http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tfMcSAo1Qo4]<\/p>\n Overall, it looks like a pretty good effort… and it doesn’t get any simpler than a single number.<\/p>\n The Nu-Val system is currently being used in 14 supermarket chains<\/a> and covers 90,000+ foods\/products. If it’s not being used by any of the stores in your vicinity, you can suggest a store<\/a> or download a request form<\/a> you can print and send to the manager of your favorite market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s no secret that many people ignore, or are confused by, nutritional labeling. And the confusion intensifies when various front-of-package claims are added to the mix. Unless you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23,28],"tags":[1200],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4682"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4682"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9279,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4682\/revisions\/9279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}