Food labels are often designed to appeal to your innate cognitive biases. Many of them get away with being misleading because we unconsciously want to be misled. Here is now you should interpret food labels

beet sugar, brown sugar, cane sugar, caster sugar, coconut sugar, date sugar, invert sugar, evaporated cane juice, confectioner’s sugar, high fructose corn syrup, honey, agave nectar, malt syrup, maple syrup, oat syrup, rice bran syrup, rice syrup, barley malt, molasses, cane juice crystals, lactose, corn sweetener, crystalline fructose, dextran, malt powder, ethyl maltol, fructose, fruit juice concentrate, galactose, glucose, disaccharides, maltodextrin, maltose.
IT’S ALL SUGAR!!!!!
In most situations, fat is replaced with sugar. Read the rest of the ingredient list carefully. Our brains are addicted to high calorie foods. If you don’t want fat, they will give you sugar instead.
No Added Sugar usually implies that the ingredients used are already high enough in sugar (fruits, milk etc) that no additional sugar was required to pander to your already sugar-addicted brain. Multigrain does not necessarily imply whole, low-glycemic index, organic, sun-kissed, cancer-curing ancient grains. In most cases, it refers to refined grains. 100% all-natural, eco-friendly, GMO-free sugar is still sugar. Organic does not imply healthy. Organic implies the legal bare minimum to avoid being sued.
“Natural” pesticides are also chemicals. Seeds irradiated to produce mutations are not considered GMO.Forified or Enriched does not make
something healthier. Biscuits made from sugar and maida “fortified” or “enriched” with vitamins is still sugar and maida. Lipstick on a pig.
GLUTEN-FREE
Does not imply healthy. It simply means that the food does not contain wheat, spelt, rye or barley. The alternatives tend to be more fats and sugar.
SERVING SIZE MATH
Most nutritional labels tend to assume a 100g serving while your actual serving size might be significantly smaller or larger. Always scale up or scale down the label serving size to the actual amount you eat! Another misleading claim: Jaggery has 60% of your daily iron requirement. Hidden fact: You need to consume 100g of jaggery, which is a lot of sugar to get that much iron.
Concluding this blog, we can only say one thing:
Saavdhan Rahiye! Satark Rahiye.