Kanadas neues Lebensmittelkennzeichnungssystem „äußerst effektiv“, sagt Experte
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/article/canadas-new-food-labelling-system-extremely-effective-expert-says/
Kanadas neues Lebensmittelkennzeichnungssystem „äußerst effektiv“, sagt Experte
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/article/canadas-new-food-labelling-system-extremely-effective-expert-says/
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I think this is one of the new government policies that is universally liked. It’s good to eat healthy and sometimes all you need is a reminder.
>“We’ve seen globally, not just in Canada, having that easy-to-understand symbol at the front of the food packages is an extremely effective way to communicate information about foods,” Lee said. She added that the increased visibility helps consumers be more conscious about saturated fats, sodium, or sugar as she says Canadians consume those “excessively.”
I look at the labels on the back so maybe it’s just me, and the first thing I look at in the sugar content by weight. And then I like to make my kids aware that 1 can of pop is, sometimes, more than their intake for the full day.
I’ve put items back on the shelf because of this.
It’s 100% worked on me. Lots of items I didn’t know should be flagged. I’ve heard some companies are adjusting their ingredients to unflag themselves, but I’ve heard this going 2 directions. Either they make it healthier, or put in unhealthy fillers to reduce the concentration.
Hell yeah best labels on the planet. Eat it, world.
Yea I’ve seen it on products and thought “ yea that makes sense I know this is not good for me” but there are other foods I’ve seen it on and been surprised and it made me look at the nutritional info on the back of the package
I love the simplicity of it
What’s hilarious to me is just how many prepackaged foods now contain this label.
It’s like non-natural foods just cannot be made to taste good without copious amounts of sugar, salt, or fat.
Blunt and large letter labeling is key and helpful.
Making people try and decipher ingredients and % ‚per serving‘ is not helpful
Personally prefer the EU system where they rank food with a grade A,B,C etc. like in elementary school. But this will suffice.
It’s definitely effective. Now do calories on alcohol!
Labelling should address is the rampant shrink inflation that happens in food manufacturing
Sometimes it is, but sometimes it warns me the box of salt I bought is high in sodium.
Ive noticed it. Very helpful honestly. A good idea.
It absolutely is! Hubby brought home some wonderful grain bread which wouldn’t normally be checked but the black box made me look. 21% of my daily sodium in two small slices of bread which means we won’t buy it again. Now, maybe the manufacturers will see the reduction in sales and reduce the damn sodium they put in the delicious bread
Anyone manage to find a product with the full trifecta of high in sugar, saturated fat, and salt?
The immediate effect on consumers eating healthier products is great. The added bonus is that companies will start to make their products healthier to avoid these labels.
Stopped me from buying twizzlers last night
What’s crazy to me is that they added warnings on packs of cigarettes years ago, and when I smoked, I couldn’t care LESS about them, but now they are adding warnings to food and I am thinking twice before purchasing and consuming.
That really opened my eyes to how addictive cigarettes are. Disgusting.
They never, ever fix one thing – where it’s coming from?
I definitely like it. Especially with my sodium intake. I live half my life on the road, living out of a pickup, and try my damnest to eat healthy. Sodium is definitely the sneaky one.
Okay I like this, like the EU traffic light labels on food I think it just makes scanning the shelves easier. What I don’t like is that it doesn’t account for serving size but will say thinks like “less than 5% is a little, more than 15% is a lot,” then if something is like 10% but the serving size is 2tbsp bs 1 cup, I think that should matter.
As someone who had history of high cholesterol this is great for me to screen products more efficiently instead of flipping the package and check one by one.
From my perspective the problem is that everything is labeled with a warning.
Too many of them and people will stop paying attention.
I like it. It has caused me to scrutinize the label more and I have put things back after reading the label and finding things like sodium being 65% of recommended daily intake or whatever.
I like these labels. I think they need to address the human habit of ignoring stuff after seeing it regularly. Maybe move the labels around or something?