A report in Reuters spoke about a report released by the US Food and Drug Administration to regulate the calories food offered by the restaurants, recommending them to sell healthy items and being transparent about the food cooked by including the recipes in the menu items so that the consumers can make these recipes back at home.
To quote FDA Acting Commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach:
Offering similar label information in restaurants would give consumers the ‘same kind of information to make those same kinds of (food) decisions away from home’.
Well, this legislation is dicey enough to give an opinion, but what can be said is that restaurants can definitely substitute high-calorie ingredients with the low-calorie ingredients and by adding natural flavors. However, as far as letting out the secret recipe is concerned FDA is putting culinary industry at stake.
The customers might really benefit by the low-cal recipes but FDA has to amend its rules in order to protect the culinary industry from unhealthy competition. FDA can inspect the food cooked in the restaurant kitchen and can lay separate rules to be genuine about the nutritional information that the restaurants give across their menu cards apart from the food packaging labels.
