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Show Nutrition Labels Useful? More than 50 percent of shoppers find nutritional information in-formation on food product labels very useful, but about 20 percent think the data may be of little or no help. That's from a recent nationwide poll in which USDA's Economic Research Service asked 1,400 main food shoppers to rate the usefulness of nine types of label information. informa-tion. Prices and freshness or open dates on food packages got high marks, with over 90 percent saying they were very useful. On the other hand, only 30 percent claimed that drained weight information on products packed in liquid would be very beneficial. |