Question

comprehension
discuss these questions in pairs,
and write the answers in your notebook.

1. why is it important for consumers

to look at the back or side of a package?

1. what common allergens do

food labels usually identify?

1. why is it important to look at

the serving size on a food package?

1. why does the reading mention a chocolate bar?
2. which food products are often

exempt from food label laws?
vocabulary review
which word from page 1 is described in the sentence?

| sentence | word

1 | it is the people who buy our products that we need to think about. |
2 | these crackers are healthy because they are baked, not fried. |
3 | the picture of the athlete on the packaging made me think that
these crackers were healthy, but they are actually full of fat. |
4 | there is so much to read that i don’t know what’s important or not. |
5 | the label tells you how much sugar you are eating in one cup of cereal. |
6 | people with high blood pressure should choose foods that are low in salt. |
7 | the baker doesn’t have to list the ingredients
because the bagels are for immediate consumption. |
8 | this sandwich meat contains a lot of preservatives. |
words that mean \sweetener\
did you know that one teaspoon of sugar equals
four grams of sugar? here are some other sweeteners
to watch for on packaging. manufacturers may try
to disguise sweeteners by adding healthy - sounding
words to them, such as \fruit,\
ice,\
efined,\
\organic,\ and
aw.\

• syrup
• words ending in -ose (sucrose, fructose, glucose)
• juice (fruit juice, cane juice)
• molasses
• sweetener
• dextrin
• barley malt

Explanation:

This is a vocabulary review task where we match sentences to words (from page 1, though page 1 isn't fully shown, we can infer common food - related or consumer - related vocabulary). Let's analyze each sentence:

1. The sentence "It is the people who buy our products that we need to think about." refers to "consumers" as consumers are the people who buy products.
2. For "These crackers are healthy because they are baked, not fried.", a relevant word could be "baked" (but since it's about the description, maybe "healthy" or a term related to cooking method, but likely "baked" or a word like "nutritious" but more likely "baked" as the key is the cooking method. However, if we assume common vocabulary from food labels, maybe "baked" or "healthy" but let's go with "consumers" for the first one as an example. Wait, the first sentence is about people who buy products, so "consumers" is the word.

1. The sentence "The picture of the athlete on the packaging made me think that these crackers were healthy, but they are actually full of fat." likely refers to "misleading" or a word like "deceptive" but if we use common food - label related vocabulary, maybe "misleading" or a term like "marketing" but more likely "misleading" or a word like "claim" but perhaps "consumers" was for the first, let's focus on the first sentence.

Since the first sentence is about people who buy products, the word is "consumers".

Answer:

1. consumers (for the first sentence. For other sentences, we would need the full list of words from page 1, but based on the given sentence, "consumers" is the match for the first sentence's description of people who buy products)