Foods should be labelled with a traffic light health score to counter misleading health claims, rese
Public Group active 3 years, 1 month agoFoods should be labelled with a traffic light health score to counter misleading health claims, researchers say.A survey of more than 1,000 Germans found food and drink packaged with labels saying ‘no added sugar’ and ‘less sweet’ made customers think products were healthier than they were.However, when the foods were slapped with a traffic nutrition grade of A to E, it reduced misconceptions about the healthiness of less nutritional foods.Lead author https://www.cruisewhat.com/what-does-the-cross-mean-in-nutrition-labels-and-what-is-it-going-to-take-to-make-it-meaningful/ Dr Kristin Jürkenbeck called for stricter rules about sugar claims on products and for mandatory use of a nutrition score system. ‘Less sugar’ doesn’t mean healthy.
German researchers found products which were labelled with ‘less sweet’ or ’30 per cent less sugar’ were mistakenly considered as healthy by consumers However, they found the addition of traffic-light style nutrient labels , like these pictured above was enough to counteract this misconception RELATED ARTICLES
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