Ever wonder what is in your meat and what the nutrition breakdown is? Beginning in 2012 you won’t have to guess. The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that cuts of meat will now get nutrition labels.
The new labels will list calories, calories from fat, total fat, saturated fat, cholesterol, sodium, protein and vitamins for 40 of the most commonly purchased cuts of beef, poultry, pork and lamb, according to an early look at the labels provided to USA TODAY. The new rules will be published today in the Federal Register.
Federal officials say they hope the labels will make Americans as conscious about health choices in the meats they buy as they have become in scouring labels on other packaged food products.
“This will be very helpful to people who are bewildered by what’s in meat,” says Marion Nestle, a professor of nutrition at New York University. “But people will be quite shocked at the calories and fat.”
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