Coca-Cola labels to include expanded nutritional info

<p>No more having to do the math to figure out exactly how many calories and carbs are in that 20-ounce bottle of Coca-Cola. New nutritional information on labels of the popular soft drink will soon break it down for you.</p><p>Coca-Cola North America announced Friday that starting next year it will roll out new labels on its bottles that will show nutritional information for the entire container as well as the traditional eight-ounce serving. The bottles, no matter how large, now only show that information for eight ounces.</p><p>The move meets a recommendation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for food and beverage companies to revise Nutrition Facts labeling for packages that can be consumed at one time, such as a 20-ounce bottle of Coca-Cola.</p><p>As bottlers use up existing inventories of bottle labels in 2005, the new ones will be phased in throughout the country, the company said.</p><p>Nutritional labels include information on calories, fat, sodium, carbohydrates,</p><p>sugars and protein. Currently, in accordance with FDA regulations, Coca-Cola's labels carry nutrition information for an eight-ounce serving and indicate the total number of servings per package.</p><p>---</p><p>On The Net:</p><p>HASH(0x2865614)</p>

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