民衆飲食中實際攝取的糖量

May 20, 2016 is a day that Most people in the food industry won’t forget. It’s the day that the FDA formally announced that it is mandating companies to, among other significant things, include the amount of added sugars in a product on food and beverage labels.

2016年5月20日，食品工業中的大多數人都不會忘記的一天。當天，美國食品和藥物管理局正式宣佈，在其他所有重大事情上，要求所有公司，在食品和飲料產品中標註糖的添加量。

But isn’t sugar already on food and drink labels?

然而，在食品和飲料標籤上不是已經有糖含量的標籤嗎?

Yes. But this more specific breakdown can go a long way in helping you determine if what you’ve selected is as healthy as you imagine it to be.

是的。但這種比較特殊的分類，可以幫你確定你選擇的和你想象的是否一樣健康。

Contrary to popular belief, all sugars are not created equal when it comes to your health risk.

與大衆觀點相反的是，當提到你的健康風險的時候，不是所有的糖都是一樣的。

To get more insight on what this change and more transparency in food labeLing means to you, we spoke to Lindsay Moyer, senior nutritionist for the Center for Science in the Public Interest in Washington, DC.

爲了更詳細地向你展示食品標籤的改變和透明度對你的重要性，我們採訪了華盛頓特區、公共利益科學中心的高級營養師林賽•梅奧。

KIND, known for its snack bars and cereals, becoming the first manufacturer of its kind to share added sugar information on more than 60 of its products. Why is this so important to consumers?

KIND，以快餐店和穀物聞名的製造商，成爲第一個在60多個產品信息中展示添加糖的製造商。消費者爲什麼會如此重要?

Lindsay Moyer, MS: Eventually, all companies will need to adhere to these guidelines, but I was very happy to see KIND make this move in advance of the deadline because it means consumers will have that much more information to start making better choices right now. Yes, there are useful details on labels today, but what’s provided doesn’t exactly paint the full picture of how a food or drink affects your health.

林賽•梅奧女士：最終，所有的公司都需要遵循這些指導方針，但我很高興看到KIND公司在截止日前的這一舉動，因爲這意味着消費者即刻起可以在更多的信息上有更好的選擇機會。是的，如今的標籤顯示了很多有用的細節，但是不能準確提供食物或飲料如何影響你的健康全貌的詳情。

Plus, it can be hard work to make sense of it all as is. I look at food labels all day long, and even I find them hard to discern sometimes.

另外，很難把所有的標籤都弄懂。我整天看食品標籤，甚至有時我發現他們很難辨別。