Erin Allman-Updike

I think their stance against fruit juices is a bit different than previous ones.

They also say, and I think this is really interesting, that if you're going to be eating packaged or snacky foods, to look for ones that meet FDA quote-unquote healthy claim limits is

And this is a category that exists.

It was like updated in 2024.

These like limits on what should constitute a quote unquote healthy food.

No one knows what those are.

What?

I've never heard of those.

Okay.

No, of course you haven't.

No one's heard of it.

And the thing is that like this is a theoretical category kind of that exists, but there's no like labeling for it.

So there's no way that companies can label a food as quote unquote healthy and that you know as a consumer it is sticking to an actual category that the FDA has made.

Like that has been proposed, but right now it does not exist.

So healthy limits, we don't really know exactly what those are.

Okay?

Okay.

They list in the dietary guidelines some specific limits on the amounts of added sugar that should be in a certain amount of ounces of food as part of this healthy claim.

But that's it.

It's only a limit on sugar, not on anything else, saturated fat or sodium or anything.