KIND Healthy Snacks publishes added sugar content of products in advance of new labeling guidelines

KIND Healthy Snacks said Tuesday it had revised labels on its snack products to include added sugar content, two years ahead of the Food and Drug Administration's late July 2018 imperative. The company said it is the first national snack brand to do so, and announced an initiative last year to reduce added sugar in selected bars. Once those new bars become available, which is expected to be next year, all KIND snacks will have half to two and a half teaspoons of added sugar per serving, a fraction of the government's 12 teaspoon a day intake recommendation. The new requirement that food companies disclose added sugars, part of a larger nutrition label overhaul that also changes calorie counts, faced a good deal of industry opposition before it passed.

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