Nutrition Facts vs. Ingredients

Ever wonder why the Nutrition Facts on packaging are so dominant and the ingredients are in super fine print and often hard to find? Why is that?

I don’t know the answer, but I’m not so sure we’ve got our priorities straight. We’re so focused on how much saturated fat, cholesterol, fiber, protein, carbs, etc. our food and drinks have, that we often don’t look at the ingredients at all. At least I don’t.

Could it be because when we look at the ingredients in a lot of foods we don’t really know what they are? There are so many five syllable words and things we don’t understand that maybe we’d rather not confront our ignorance. Or could it be because we just assume most foods include perfectly normal ingredients? Or maybe we’ve been brainwashed by all of the diet fads and ubiquitous “fat-free” and “sugar-free” product labels?

I’m not what the reasons are exactly, but in my opinion something is a little screwy. Shouldn’t we be more concerned with what’s actually in our foods rather than the nutrition facts? I’m not saying we shouldn’t have nutrition facts, but maybe they should be below the ingredients and in smaller font to make more room for the ingredients. Doesn’t that make more sense? What do you think?