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In new zealand we have http://www.foodstandards.govt.nz/consumer/labelling/panels/P...

and Mcdonalds for instance... https://mcdonalds.co.nz/sites/mcdonalds.co.nz/files/Nutritio...

which is great if you care about it. But generally if you care about such things you have a pretty good idea for most foods anyways. Though, there are a few foods that it's not entirely obvious there's lots of sugar in them.



Maybe it's just me because I don't know how the US works, but when trying to find the official information for this, it seems like none of the news agencies I found via googling reference official information, they just reference their own news about things officials said. Eventually I found a reference to a fda document. Seemed painful to find though.

https://www.fda.gov/downloads/Food/GuidanceRegulation/Guidan...


The USDA already keeps a publically available food database (https://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/search/list) of most of this information. Its just that now restaurants need to make it more prominent at the time of order.


Yeah, I remember when US products like Dr Pepper first started showing up in NZ they would have a sticky label over the top of the nutrition info with a more compliant one.




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