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<p style="font-size: 18pt; font-weight:bold; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/nutrition-label-detective-part-two-but-what-does-that-mean/">Nutrition Label Detective (Part Two): But What Does That Mean?</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';">Posted April 5, 2008 at 01:00 PM by Caroline Shannon</p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Deciphering a nutrition label can be tricky, and with words like “hydrolyzed wheat gluten” and “thiamine mononitrate” popping up throughout ingredients lists, an in-and-out trip to the grocery store has become a quick thing of the past. But don’t fret. There is hope for the health-conscious woman who just wants to know a bit about the foods she is putting into her cart. The following is a list of the most common – albeit difficult to decipher – ingredients found on a nutrition label. Use it the next time you hit the grocery store, and you will feel like a label-savvy detective in no time! Sugar Sugar comes in several forms, and why not?! The average American “consumes more than 152 pounds of added sugar each year — in addition to the…<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/nutrition-label-detective-part-two-but-what-does-that-mean/">(<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/nutrition-label-detective-part-two-but-what-does-that-mean/">Continued...</a>)<br clear="all" /><br> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/nutrition-label-detective-part-two-but-what-does-that-mean/">Read the full article...</a> | <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/nutrition-label-detective-part-two-but-what-does-that-mean/">Comment on this post</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Filed under: <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-health/">her-health</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-nutrition/">her-nutrition</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/healthy-eating/">healthy-eating</a><br /><br /> </P>