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The Food Label and You
Check It Out
1996

This award winning video demonstrates how consumers can quickly and easily use the food label to meet their personal nutritional needs. The viewer is shown how to use the Nutrition Facts panel to make informed food choices, how to compare nutrient content claims without memorizing definitions, how to relate serving size to portion control, and how to use the Percent Daily Value as a reference tool without doing math. The video concludes with a one-minute quiz.

The video is available in several formats. Please select one from the list below:

• Windows Media Player (33 MB)
• Quicktime (33 MB)
• Real Player (2 MB, low resolution for dial-up)
• MP3 (7.2 MB, audio only)

Food Labeling Educational Video Leader's Guide 1996

For more information on the Food Label, please see the links below:

• Guidance on How to Understand and Use the Nutrition Facts Panel on Food Labels
• Overview: The Food Label, May 1999
• Food Labeling High School Kit
• Other Food Labeling Information

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Note: Although the files linked here are compressed to the maximum capability of standard compression software, it is to be understood that video is inherently a very data-intensive medium. Therefore, these files are large and will take a long time to download over a dial-up connection.

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