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Typically, the top 5 make up the most of the food. This cereal has whole grain wheat, sugar, corn bran, whole grain oats, and whole grain rice as its top 5 ingredients. Last but not least, the ingredient list! The ingredients are listed from the most (by weight) to the least (by weight). The ** gives a brief description of what the percent Daily Values mean. (The percent Daily Values were given for plain cereal, and for cereal with 1/2 cup skim milk.)
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The * gives you the grams (or milligrams) of each nutrient that you’ll be eating if you have 1/2 cup of skim milk with your cereal. So 1 cup of this cereal has around 10% of the total amount of vitamin C you should be eating in a day.ĭid you notice the * and the ** on the label in the Nutritional Values section? They direct you to a spot lower on the label. These aren’t listed by the total amount of each vitamin, just by the percent Daily Value. Then we get to look at the amount of vitamins and minerals that are in each serving of cereal. Use them to help you judge how much of any of these nutrients you are eating, but only as a guideline. If you’re eating less than 2,000 calories a day, the percent Daily Value of sodium that you get will be higher than 8% (more total calories/food, means more of the total amount is from this food). If you are eating more than 2,000 calories in a day, the percent of your Daily Value of sodium that you get from eating 1 cup of this cereal will be lower than 8% (more total calories/food, means less of the total amount is from this one food). In other words, if you’re eating 2,000 calories a day, one cup of this cereal will give you about 8% of the sodium you should be eating in one day. The percent Daily Values are based on the recommendations for a 2,000 calorie a day diet. The amount (in grams 1 g = 1000 milligrams, or mg) of each of these nutrients is listed next to the nutrient, along with the percent Daily Value. I’ll leave the carbohydrate and protein instructions to the nutritionists. In general, we should all be limiting our intake of fat, cholesterol, sodium, and potassium. This is also where you can check out the amount of fat, cholesterol, sodium, potassium, carbohydrate, and protein that are in each serving. My bowls hold a cup and a half pretty easily, and I know some of you have bigger bowls than I do! So if I just fill up my bowl in the morning without measuring, I’m probably going to eat more than 1 cup. The next part talks about the nutritional value of each serving of the food, not what’s in the entire box. (Good thing they put it at the top!) This is what tells you how big one serving is and how many you can expect to get out of the whole package.įor this box of cereal, one serving is 1 cup of cereal, and there are around 8 servings in the box. Okay, the first part on the label is probably the most important part. Wait, wait… this is too big and too overwhelming to look at all at once. The print is so tiny, and the information is packed in so closely together, how many of us just glaze over and don’t really pay attention? I do sometimes. Here’s the quick and dirty explanation of those pesky nutrition labels. Those panels on the back or side or bottom of the food package.