All ingredients in a food product must be listed on the label in the order —from largest to smallest by weight.
For example look at this label above from a cookie mix package. What is the ingredient used most by weight?
There is more sugar in the Cookie Mix package than flour. Do you think that so much sugar is necessary? Actually, cookies and biscuits have a very high sugar content. That’s why we like them! If you were making these cookies from scratch (with individual ingredients) do you think you would use as much sugar? Do you think they would taste the same?
Fast food restaurants, like McDonalds and Subway, are also required to provide nutritional information for their products. Below is an extract from Subway Chocolate Chip Cookies which can be found on the web:
You can see from the Chocolate Chip Cookie label that there is sugar in both the chocolate chips AND the batter into which the chips are added.
Do you think this would mean that there is more sugar in this product than flour?