With today's food labels, consumers get:

-Nutrition information about almost every food

-Distinctive, easy-to-read formats that enable consumers to more quickly find the information they need to make healthy food choices

-Information on the amount per serving of saturated fat, cholesterol, dietary fiber, and other nutrients of major health concern

-Nutrient reference values, expressed as % Daily Values, that help consumers see how a food fits into an overall daily diet

-Single common interpretation for terms that describe a food's nutrient content--such as "light," "low-fat," and "high-fiber"--to ensure that such terms mean the same for any product on which they appear

-Nutrition Facts are helpful for people who are concerned about maintaining a healthy diet, to avoid health-related condition, such as calcium and osteoporosis, and fat and cancer.

-Standardized serving sizes that allows for nutritional comparisons of similar products