1.   Americans, on the other hand, could not survive without warning labels on rocks, nutrition labels on coconuts and access to a good personal injury lawyer.

2.   And you thought reading a nutrition label was confusing.

3.   A registered dietitian with a trained eye for reading nutrition labels, she has meticulously combed supermarket shelves to ferret out the best low-fat food choices.

4.   Checking the nutrition facts label on the back of the bottle for calories, carbohydrates and botanical ingredients is a good idea, says Berning.

5.   FDA Commissioner David A. Kessler has come under fire recently for his advocacy of food nutrition labels and attempt to regulate tobacco as a drug.

6.   Even the experts get surprised by what they perceive to be a serving, and what the nutrition facts label says.

7.   Nutrition labels on processed foods list the saturated fat as well as total fat amount in one portion, she pointed out.

8.   Perhaps the most important tool consumers have been given in recent years is the mandatory nutrition label.

9.   The new nutrition label on packaged products makes it easier to find fiber because it must be listed.

10.   There are times, in an effort to analyze the fat content of the meal I just ate, I dig through the trash to read nutrition labels.