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Traffic Light Food Coding?
A front-of-pack food labelling traffic light system is being recommended as the industry standard by watchdog the Food Standards Agency.
The scheme denotes by a red, amber and green coding system whether a food has high, medium or low levels of fat, saturated fat, sugar and salt.
The scheme denotes by a red, amber and green coding system whether a food has high, medium or low levels of fat, saturated fat, sugar and salt.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4788704.stm
Good idea?
Good idea if your bothered about fat content, yeah!
What colour do you reckon it would be on a tub of lard?
KidA
Good for all those idiots who complain that they don't know burgers are full of fat and ready meals are full of salt.
Salt is a hidden killer though, the general public have no idea just how much salt bread and tinned soup contains for example. Both are percieved as being healthy but they are not. In fact the only tinned soup which didn't have stupidly high salt in it I have seen is M&S Premium stuff.
Not a bad idea.
those who cared about what they were eating beforehand will still know what's healthy and what's not, and it might be a helping hand to those who hadn't thought about it before. The only thing that might not be so good is people taking something mostly green and preparing it in a way that makes it ever so unhealthy, but people have always done that.
And I had great fun preparing my Sunday dinner and looking at all the red going into the oven
those who cared about what they were eating beforehand will still know what's healthy and what's not, and it might be a helping hand to those who hadn't thought about it before. The only thing that might not be so good is people taking something mostly green and preparing it in a way that makes it ever so unhealthy, but people have always done that.
And I had great fun preparing my Sunday dinner and looking at all the red going into the oven
dogtanian
Not a bad idea.
those who cared about what they were eating beforehand will still know what's healthy and what's not, and it might be a helping hand to those who hadn't thought about it before. The only thing that might not be so good is people taking something mostly green and preparing it in a way that makes it ever so unhealthy, but people have always done that.
And I had great fun preparing my Sunday dinner and looking at all the red going into the oven
those who cared about what they were eating beforehand will still know what's healthy and what's not, and it might be a helping hand to those who hadn't thought about it before. The only thing that might not be so good is people taking something mostly green and preparing it in a way that makes it ever so unhealthy, but people have always done that.
And I had great fun preparing my Sunday dinner and looking at all the red going into the oven
You'd probably want to take the packaging off before you put it in the oven to be honest! :P
AT82
Salt is a hidden killer though, the general public have no idea just how much salt bread and tinned soup contains for example. Both are percieved as being healthy but they are not. In fact the only tinned soup which didn't have stupidly high salt in it I have seen is M&S Premium stuff.
Has anyone seen that walkers crisps advert where they say the ready salted ones have as much salt as a slice of white bread? Well, I thought bread was high in salt, so surely that's saying it's bad?
Juno
Has anyone seen that walkers crisps advert where they say the ready salted ones have as much salt as a slice of white bread? Well, I thought bread was high in salt, so surely that's saying it's bad?
The difference is you never have one slice of toast you have a few, with a packet of crisps most people only have a packet. Crisps have less salt per 100g.
BirchyGreen
No, I think pple are capable of making their own decisions,
what are they gonna do, try and give pple a stigma of buying red food?
Kids in Schools will be bullying the fat kids askin them if the colour scheme in their kitchens are red!
and I dont want the salt levels reduced in the salt and vinegar crips...
I hate all this dictation rubbish!
I can't remember hearing of anyone dying, bar slugs and snails from salt.
(apart from that lil kid who was poisoned by his mother, but he was fed teaspoons of the stuff so its different)
El Scotto
I can't remember hearing of anyone dying, bar slugs and snails from salt.
(apart from that lil kid who was poisoned by his mother, but he was fed teaspoons of the stuff so its different)
(apart from that lil kid who was poisoned by his mother, but he was fed teaspoons of the stuff so its different)
There was a kid who was fed ready brek because she couldn't afford proper baby food.
The salt level from eating that much ready brek killed him. The mum had no idea.
But the damage that salt does is a bit more indirect. Bad for your heart, just like McDonalds is. But the food doesn't actually kill anyone, the heart attacks or whatever do that. But it leads up to it.
That said, I don't like the crisps and that being changed. I eat crisps knowing that they're unhealthy
Oh, and I don't think anyone would be stigmatised for eating a dinner with more red foods in it. It's just like reading nutrition information, only now it's clearer and easier to understand. People can still make the decision to eat that food. Nothing's changed as such, other than it might be a bit easier to work out how much salt and saturated fat you're eating, if you want to.
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