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The wording on food labels can be confusing if you don’t know what it means…and helpful if you do! Foods labeled “free” have the least amount of the nutrient. For instance, “fat free” means only trace amounts of fat are present in the food. “Very low” and “low” have small amounts of the nutrient value. “Reduced” means the food has 25 percent less of that nutrient than the standard version. Beware, though—everything’s relative. If, say, a muffin originally had 50 grams of fat, then the “reduced fat” version still has 35 grams of fat—your total daily requirement of fat!

Source: Food and Drug Administration