“It’s definitely easy not to be aware how much sugar you’re consuming,” says the University of California, Davis’ Kimber Stanhope.
In the latest episode of Fig. 1, a web series that focuses on new ideas and research coming out of the UC system, Stanhope says that the American Heart Association recommends women consume twenty-five grams of added sugar per day.
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The new labels were proposed in 2014, but Jennifer Dooren, a spokesperson for the FDA, said that it’s impossible to say when they’ll actually hit food products.
“The agency is currently going through the comments on the nutrition facts label and serving size proposed rules,” she told The Huffington Post. “We had almost 290,000 on the nutrition facts label. I cannot comment on a timeline as to when the proposals will be made final.”
