The nutritional facts and ingredients that appear on a product’s packaging aim to reveal what consumers want to know about a food.
A consumer might choose to look at a product’s calorie, fat, protein, carbohydrate, vitamin, or mineral content.
Those factors, as well as the potential presence of allergens and other ingredients, all work together to reveal a product’s content.
However, many manufacturers print claims that can steer consumers in one direction or the other.