For the first time in 20 years, the FDA has proposed changes to its Nutrition Facts food labels. In the FDAs new designs, several important food stats have been enlarged, and some have even been recalculated in accordance with the actual serving sizes Americans eat today, The New York Times reports. Serving size updates are only being proposed on 17 percent of the approximately 150 categories of packaged food monitored by the FDA, the Times reports. The FDAs old labels (left) and new labels (right) The FDA hopes that food companies will cut down on manufacturing added sugars just like they did with Trans Fats when they were first denoted on labels few years ago.
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