FDA Nutrition Labeling Requirements – Example Splenda & Cooking Spray

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    Chin
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    Here is a link to CFR's, Title 21: Food and Drugs – Part 101 Food Labeling – 101.9 Nutrition food labelinghttp://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ecfr&sid=563f0b6235da3f4c7912a64cbceec305&rgn=div8&view=text&node=21:2.0.1.1.2.1.1.6&idno=21Below are a couple excerpts from the FDA's page above.This part is about how the calorie listing is to specified:(1) “Calories, total,” “Total calories,” or “Calories”: A statement of the caloric content per serving, expressed to the nearest 5-calorie increment up to and including 50 calories, and 10-calorie increment above 50 calories, except that amounts less than 5 calories may be expressed as zero. Energy content per serving may also be expressed in kilojoule units, added in parentheses immediately following the statement of the caloric content. This part is about how carbohydrates are to be listed:(6) “Carbohydrate, total” or “Total carbohydrate”: A statement of the number of grams of total carbohydrate in a serving expressed to the nearest gram, except that if a serving contains less than 1 gram, the statement “Contains less than 1 gram” or “less than 1 gram” may be used as an alternative, or if the serving contains less than 0.5 gram, the content may be expressed as zero. Total carbohydrate content shall be calculated by subtraction of the sum of the crude protein, total fat, moisture, and ash from the total weight of the food. This calculation method is described in A. L. Merrill and B. K. Watt, “Energy Value of Foods—Basis and Derivation,” USDA Handbook 74 (slightly revised 1973) pp. 2 and 3, which is incorporated by reference in accordance with 5 U.S.C. 552(a) and 1 CFR part 51 (the availability of this incorporation by reference is given in paragraph (c)(1)(i)(A) of this section). If the case of Splenda, the ingredients in addition to sucralose are dextrose and maltodextrin. They state on their website how the FDA labeling works, so they are not hiding anything. Link provided.http://www.splendatruth.com/faq#25 For a packet of Sucralose (Splenda or generic) being labeled as less than 1g of carbohydrate per serving, this means by the FDA definition that the packet contains 0.5g to 0.99g of dextrose and maltodextrin. I'm assuming it is 0.99g because the wording states less than 1g and companies take the wording literally to benefit them. This was a big issue for me, since I was using 30 packets of Splenda per day providing 15g to 29.7g of dextrose and maltodextrin. I have since found EZ-Sweetz on Amazon which is a liquid form like the SteviaClear product.The other product, which is not a big deal for CBL, but misleading for the consumer is cooking spray. The serving size is a 1/4 to 1/3 second spray (not a very measurable and reproducible serving size). To be able to claim 0g of fat like they do, the amount of fat per serving has to be less than 0.5gm (0.49g or less). So that means if they are claiming a 1/4 of a second spray serving size, then then the the total fat per second is as high as 1.96g Fat for a 1 second spray. Hope y'all find this useful.

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    AdamFiddler
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    Yeah I really disagree and don't understand why Kiefer keeps recommending Splenda.  For all of the great stuff Kiefer puts out there, this seems like a truly awful piece of advice on just about every front I can think of. 

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    Lasse Elsbak
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    30 packets a day? 0.o what were you putting it on? 😛

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