how the heck does literally every single food product have a detailed, standardized nutrition facts? who makes the nutrition facts? is there a company or something that every food manufacturer sends their product to for detailed analysis?
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>>7764137
goobermants force food companies to make these
if it wasnt for the goobermants you wouldnt see these anywhere
I will need a little more convincing that this is not b8 before posting a serious reply
A computer program tabulates the nutritional info based on the recipe and serving size.
>>7764137
It's required by law. Each company is responsible for printing it. As to whether what they print is accurate or not? Who knows?
The Feds are lazy and I doubt they check any of them at all. I mean, NYC requires it and they don't check.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE2lna5Wxuo
>>7764593
The maker of the food product is responsible for preparing the label information and affixing it to the product in a way that satisfies the guidelines for whatever type of packaging is being used. Smaller makers simply use a spreadsheet and calculate the information from the ingredients, or hire a consultant to do it, there are plenty of those. You only have to do it once per product unless you reformulate. Larger food makers will have an in house laboratory with a bomb calorimeter and other stuff to test product on a consistent basis, this is called quality assurance and nutrition info comes out of there typically.
the FDA is responsible for the labeling conventions, guidance, and auditing labels for accuracy, but it rarely does those unless there's a serious claim of misrepresentation
This is your bible if you make commercial food
http://www.fda.gov/Food/GuidanceRegulation/GuidanceDocumentsRegulatoryInformation/LabelingNutrition/ucm2006828.htm
>>7764641
WAh please big government help us!
Jeez, does this guy even know how much it would cost to enforce these laws?
It's pretty pointless since health is more about lifestyle and eating specific foods than about calculating pedantically so you 'cheat' and shit. The healthiest peoples in the world don't count their calories mathematically. If anything the opposite people do. Ditto for 'diet foods'.
All this also mistakenly assumes that universal health would be preferable. This breaks the fundamental rule of nature that good things come from hierarchy rather than equality. McDonald's is preferable to starving, and the poor individual (i.e. the largely useless individual, from the perspective of society) has the right to determine whether he prefers to put his income into a new cellphone or higher quality food. After all, he's merely going to be cleaning the toilets in the labs in which the scientists and the engineers will be working on the Overman, which is a function that can be fulfilled just as well on McDonald's as on organic wholesome food (and probably even better that way, since they'll have less energy and vitality to expend, and hence bear the drudgery of toilet-cleaning far better. Hell, they may as well do drugs for all we care.) The scientists and engineers, meanwhile, will be eating good food both because they deserve to, since they are more useful to society than the toilet-cleaning subhumans, and because they are smart enough to invest in it; and those who aren't are welcome to make their own choices on the matter, whatever those may be.
>>7764714
This
Not to mention that listed calories are allowed to be off by 15%, the Atwater system is hideously broken to boot, and people are terrible at counting calories. It works as a tool but not as a principle
>>7764714
Labeling isn't about nutrition, genius, it's about regulating capital industry so it doesn't rip us off. Look at China, it didn't have food labeling until 2012 and there were people putting literal poison in the milk and reselling recycled oil from the sewers. You want that kind of crap in the US? No you do not. Labels aren't perfect but their a hell of a lot better than the alternative.
And define "healthiest" because if you're an athelete of fitness buff, you absolutely count calories and macro nutrients and it is the MOST reliable way to improve your health
>>7764714
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