Reading Food Labels

What are you suggested by the label ?

• To mix it with tea

• To keep it in a dry place

• To shake the emulsion well before use

• To have it soon after the cap is opened

What product is the label for ?

• Food

• Drink

• Vitamin

• Medicine

A text is used to give information about product is ....

• Caution

• Label

• Notice

• Warning

The label is telling us about … of a product.

• the information

• the usage

• the materials

• the benefits

When would it be best to consume the product?

• Before April 27th , 2010.

• After April 4th, 2010.

• On April 4th, 2010.

• During April 4th, 2010.

Read the following text to answer questions number 6 and 7. SUPPLEMENTS FACTS _________________________ Serving size: 1 tablet Servings per container: 30 _________________________ Amount of serving% Daily value Vitamin C(as non acidic calcium ascorbate) 50mg 416,67 mg Calcium (as calcium ascorbate) 50 mg 7,14 mg Citrus bioflavonoid 50 mg Rutin* 25 mg Hesperidin* 25 mg Rose hips* 125 mg Acerola* 5 mg ________________________ *Daily value not established Suggested use: 1 tablet after meal __________________________ This product contains no artificial colors, flavors, preservatives, milk, egg, sugar, chemical solvent, starch or gluten 6. What is the purpose of the text?

• To advertise a supplement for woman

• To describe a product for adult

• To give detailed information about the supplement

• To tell the value of a supplement

Turn over a bag of potato chips. Is the label interesting? A simple food recipe may use several ingredients. These come from the soil and from chemistry labs around the world. Surprises also show up in the labels on clothing and other products. Look at the label on a package of lipstick. The tube seems small and shiny, but inside lipstick there is soap, oil, fish scales, and wax! Which is the best way to summarize this passage?

• A bag of potato chips seems like a simple recipe. There are many ingredients from the soil and from chemistry labs.

• Clothes and other products have many ingredients as well. Lipstick alone has soap, oil, wax, and fish scales.

• Labels show what goes into food, clothing, and other products. A simple product may have many ingredients.

• Lipstick seems small and shiny. Look at the label sometime. It has at least four different ingredients.

Which sentence least supports the author’s claim in this essay?

• Marketers have developed some fanciful food labeling strategies to make us think we are consuming less food, when in fact we are not.

• People served on smaller plates thought that they had been served a large portion.

• The labeling of these food and drink items seems whimsical, if not completely inaccurate.

• …”vanity sizing”, the practice of labeling clothes as smaller sizes than they really are…a dress that is really a size 8 may be labeled a size 2.

What is the author’s purpose in the essay

• to persuade the reader to consider marketing occupations

• to give facts and details about marketing

• to suggest that people should be careful when reading labels and choosing portions

• to complain that marketing is all a scheme

Which of the following is the central idea of the essay?

• Americans can not trust the commercials they see nor hear because marketers are trying to promote bad health.

• Labels on food and clothes are harmful to Americans who over rely on them for their portion sizes and as an indicator of their waist sizes.

• Marketers have many ways to slyly trick Americans which results in an increase in the number of obese Americans.

• Americans must use sound judgement when reading labels on food and clothes to make sure they stay healthy and avoid obesity.